[gamma-male]

I don't believe housing is the issue. Housing is the distraction. The real issue is that the US incentivizes disparity. Shitty minimum wage, no car = no job (lack of public transport), no universal health care (health issue? Your life is over) and no free education (no money and no good grades? Good luck)

[Kalium]

Some might contend that San Francisco has all of those problems addressed. There is adequate public transportation, a livable minimum wage, access to health care, and free education for all.

It may be worth considering how all the issues you so correctly and wisely identify have been addressed in the place that seems to continue to exemplify the worst of the crisis. Perhaps they're all addressed improperly or inefficiently. Perhaps trying to address the issues is simply too new to have had any impact at all. Perhaps the solutions are so successful that they've drawn people from elsewhere in need of help, making the crisis falsely appear to be ongoing. Perhaps the critical services you point to are insufficient somehow.

What are your thoughts on explaining this apparent conundrum? I'd very much love to hear! I want to understand.