[stale2002]

Because it is extremely expensive to address it locally, and you could help a LOT more people by taking that money and building homes for people in less expensive places.

Every 1 homeless person that you help in SF is 10 people that you could be helping somewhere else

[WillPostForFood]

You can still do that without having the state run the program. The homeless problem in SF might looks somewhat different from Chula Vista, so it makes sense to have locally created programs in addition to state programs. Regardless, the state does run homeless programs, and earlier this year passed a two billion dollar program to build housing for the homeless.