The homeless in San Francisco are mostly people who can’t afford to live anywhere because they are incapable of generating or maintaining anything of monetary value. Rents could fifty bucks a month and they’d still be on the streets. The problem, then, is how to take care of those people.
Hong Kong has really, really high rent but you don’t see people sleeping on the streets because shitty housing isn’t illegal. You can get a bed in a shared room. I wouldn’t want to live 18 to a room but it beats sleeping on the streets.
This is all about property owners zoning everywhere so cheap housing is illegal. Just making flophouses/single room occupancy legal again would make large improvements in the homeless situation.
Make building housing legal again.
And you cannot get a decent job without a place to live, which also puts pressure on bankruptcies. You cannot share an apartment when you have a family or when you cannot afford even that.
I've met lots of engineers that fall into that category.
Not to mention whole divisions and companies.
Besides exiling people from the community they were born into is genocide.