Of course nobody with half a heart harbors any animosity towards a person who who for whatever reason is homeless and just wants to eat and live their life. It

Of course nobody with half a heart harbors any animosity towards a person who who for whatever reason is homeless and just wants to eat and live their life. It's the combination of the tragedy that so many live on the streets and the crime that such a population brings to the rest of us that is the issue. These people are often mentally unstable, violent, drug addicted, disturbed, etc. Throwing them in jail is a waste of their potential and our money. Instead of only providing soup kitchens and free beds (which combined with the weather simply incentivizes out of state folks to come to SF), we should also provide some sort of long term, institutional mental care for these people - the present two options aren't working (a bed and some soup or if you get convicted of a crime a cage and some nutraloaf).