Facebook and Google could reverse their negative PR so quickly if they actually put some money meaningfully toward the problem, not into fake tax shelters for their founders.
We need more fucking housing. Period. End of story. We need condo towers. We need townhomes. We need mid-rises.
And secondly, we need free and low cost mental health services.
That's it. Problem solved. The problem is we're 20 years behind.
If there's one thing that makes Silicon Valley unpleasant to me, it's the "simple, just do X" hand-wave that so many there indulge in regarding every damn topic. I'm sure your job isn't so simple a child could do it. Why act like everybody else's is?
And just giving homeless people a better place to live is only one, tho extremely important, dimension along which homeless people can be helped.
And then of course one should expect side-effects to any help one would give, e.g. increasing 'demand' for help for homeless people. I'd imagine one reason why there's so many homeless people in San Fransisco is that it's already one of the best places to be homeless.
If you are a private worker you pay a monopoly surplus to the landlord and then get taxed to hell, and then you would give charity to help the homelessness the previous two mostly provoke?
Hell no.