It’s not a money issue. These cities have all the money they can into reducing “homelessness” aka open air drug markets. It’s a policy issue. Get these guys off the street and tell them to get clean.
"A failing mental health system leaves this mother pleading: Keep him in jail"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-12/one-moms...
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/...