[amrocha]

There's no leap, but we don't even need to have that conversation.

Poverty exists, which leads to homelessness.

This is not because of "local SF and California" policies. Homelessness is a problem in nearly every North American cities, from Vancouver to New York. Large cities in Europe also struggle with it, albeit to a lesser degree.

I'm not against building more housing, but no matter how much you build, not everyone will be able to afford it.

And I don't know where you got the idea that the USA is "turning a blind eye" to these problems. There's no blind eye. The US has the highest carceral population in the world. Cities already spent hundreds of millions on police. The problems are not being ignored, the solutions attempted just don't work.

[prottog]

> Homelessness is a problem in nearly every North American cities, from Vancouver to New York.

It's an order of magnitude higher in San Francisco at ~2.5% of the population compared to New York at ~0.8% and Vancouver at ~0.3%. SF isn't the only city with homeless people, but it likely has it to the highest degree, with other undesirable traits like open-air drug use, public defecation, and property crimes.

> no matter how much you build, not everyone will be able to afford it.

That's true, but we should still build more so that more people will be able to afford housing. No policy choice will completely eliminate poverty or homelessness nor reduce it for free without opportunity cost, so as a society we have to make prudent tradeoffs that help the most people for the least cost.

> Poverty exists, which leads to homelessness.

Are you suggesting that we're capable of totally eliminating poverty?

[amrocha]

What's your point? What are you even arguing here? You started at questioning if wealth inequality lead to the current situation, and now you abandoned that point and moved on to claiming SF is unique (it's not), and going off on tangents that you yourself admit don't solve the problem.