I'm not sure how the homelessness issue in SF has any relationship to housing costs.
The root cause was losing a lot of funding for mental health services during the Gov. Reagan years.
But go ahead with your strawman.
The root cause was losing a lot of funding for mental health services during the Gov. Reagan years.
But go ahead with your strawman.
This sort of uncivil internet trope breaks the HN guidelines and is the sort of thing commenters here are expected to avoid.
It looks like your account has a long history of posting this kind of thing. Would you please only post civilly and substantively from now on?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14649227 and marked it off-topic.
The first type can be helped by better job opportunities and cheaper housing. All the cheap housing in the world cannot help the latter group because they can't function in society even if you make it that much easier.
We do need a federal (or at least statewide) solution for the latter group, though, because with local control it's too easy to for the "solution" to be giving the homeless person a free bus ticket out of town.