I think the bulk of this whole problem is that homelessness up until the past decade....didn’t involve a lot of drugged-up people just laying on the street and preying on the public enough to get the cash for their next ‘hit’. So you gaze around San Francisco today, and realize at least 500 people are there for their daily Heroin trick and finding someone to rob to achieve that.
It’s NOT true homelessness anymore....it’s just people laying there in some stage of doped-up. In this case, you might as well herd the group up....drop them into some fenced-in area and give them three meals a day with a cot, and let them finish up their lives without being a public spectacle.
Before dopers, it was drunks...and it’s still mostly drunks today, interspersed with crazy people.
Alcohol is still the cheapest drug. Millions are addicted to it.
It’s a scourge on society.