[cjwilliams]

Your comment may be correct when talking about the visible homeless. Yes there is a new class of lawless junkies damaging the urban fabric of the west coast. But there are many more homeless that are not visible and not criminals. These people are just less fortunate in social connections and skills and they need help. That said addicts who have chosen a life of boosting and getting high need institutional correction. Unfortunately the right wants to pretend all the homeless are junkies and the left that all are single moms who are underpaid and cant afford rent