[DoreenMichele]

There has been a substantial increase in households of 1 to 3 people and not a concommitent increase in housing appropriate for such a household size.

Everything I have studied suggests that, yes, homelessness is directly related to a lack of affordable housing.

[Dig1t]

So you're saying that if there were homes available to purchase in San Francisco for 200k, that the drug addicts and mentally ill people wandering the street would all be gone?

Until very recently, there were condos and houses available in that exact price range in downtown Austin. Yet ask anyone who lives there, there are and were tons of homeless everywhere you went in the city.

There are other cities that are way more affordable than SF, with the same homelessness problem. The thing they share in common with SF are the "compassionate" policing policies.

[DoreenMichele]

No, I'm saying it's a complicated confluence of factors, it's not just a San Francisco problem and we need to address our affordable housing deficit nationwide if we really want a few key areas inundated with homeless "crazies" to be able to successfully wrangle their problems at the local level and stop being held responsible for the failures of decades-long and nationwide policies.