I could cherry pick some senseless violence stories from any large American city. They don't prove anything. While I do think San Francisco is poorly managed,

I could cherry pick some senseless violence stories from any large American city. They don't prove anything. While I do think San Francisco is poorly managed, it's naive to think that its homeless problem is caused solely by bad governance. It's a combination of a lot of different things: the hippies that turned into deranged homeless people, the strong lure of California for those down on their luck, the strong drug culture, the very consistent temperatures, the size of Golden Gate Park, etc.