Umm...San Francisco also hands out $300/month checks to anyone who lines up at city hall and claims "homelessness" in the city. Last year's budget for the "homeless" was something like $100 million.
San Francisco is utterly mad. Even attempting rational comments goes nowhere with them. The current mayor, Gavin Newsome, was actually elected as the conservative candidate, as he ran on a platform of cleaning up the homeless/day labor/thug problem in the city.
And of course, what did he do instead?
Marriage licenses for Steve and Bruce.
BTW, this week he's walking the picket lines with hotel workers demanding higher wages. Workers whose wages have had downward pressure from...right. The illegals coming in to take the jobs. The illegals he wants to subsidize now...
Perfectly rational, right?
In this area many of the seasonal workers can only earn $5000 to $7000 a year which is why you often find 3 large families living in some old single wide trailer. The wage-earner might find enough work for beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets but the woman and her children bring in the most by collecting food stamps, housing subdidies, WIC and all the rest.