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This is called a strawman argument.
I'm going to need you to explain that a little better as I don't get it. But the thing is (now that I'm on a computer and can type more), whether or not we take the funding from the military (of which I have no objection to), his solution makes no sense.
Let's say we have 2% of the military funding (and actually not from the military, in case there are people who are opposed), his proposal still doesn't stand. If you take that money, you need to put it somewhere worthwhile. That's all I'm trying to say. The first part is inconsequential because it doesn't actually affect the solution.
The original point was that we as a country have resources. Resources can be reallocated.
If you don't believe that resources can help or resolve and issue like homelessness or the growth in costs for housing... Well then you'd have to explain why.
What you chose to do instead, was focus in on the idea of building "new" "town" which you understood to be some harebrained scheme to take cheap land in the middle of no where, build a "town" there and then shuttle all the poor people there. Even if the commenter literally wanted that, it's still a strawman argument as you are taking the weakest version of the idea that resources can help solve the problem, and instead fixating on a bunch of ghost towns that are never going to be built anyways.
I guess you read into it more than I did. I took it literally at face value.
There is nothing wrong with allocating or re-allocating our resources to help issues in the country. I don't think this point is contested. But what is the best use of those resources such that we can accomplish the goal of mitigating housing prices skyrocketing more or homelessness?