I am not a homeless expert but I think a non-insignificant portion of homeless are not mentally stable enough to accept help and are suspicious of anyone that attempts to help them get off the streets.

For $30 million he could build about 70 subsidized apartments in SF.

https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/construction-costs-series

I think the last 50 years have shown that simply throwing money at homelessness won't make it go away. Most modern projects to reduce homelessness have either had unexpectedly underwhelming results or surprisingly large unintended consequences.

I think that is about as clear a sign as we're going to get that our common sense notions about how to solve homelessness are insufficient, which means further scientific research is necessary.

San Francisco spends in the neighborhood of $300M per year on homelessness. Feels like research on how to better spend that money will do more than just throwing more money at the problem will.

see this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-housed-t...