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I don't know how your comment is related to the article under discussion. If innovation could solve homelessness, San Francisco wouldn't have had the crisis it currently does. I don't know how changing Toronto to be more like SF in terms of tech companies is supposed to solve homelessness. At best, these are orthogonal issues.

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>If innovation could solve homelessness, San Francisco wouldn't have had the crisis it currently does.

You can't innovate when zoning regulations and building codes prevent you from doing so.

Taxis and short-stay-rentals got innovated, even when there were pretty clear regulations that had to be broken/ignored.

I suspect the bigger problem here is that there's no (or not nearly enough) money at the end of the rainbow of solving the homelessness problem.

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