The homeless problem is SF is so minuscle and the talent and funds available so extensive that the only reasonable conclusion is there is no desire to fix it. C

The homeless problem is SF is so minuscle and the talent and funds available so extensive that the only reasonable conclusion is there is no desire to fix it. Contrast this with the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted by the government on the severely bloated security state and trillions on the banks bailout and one has to question the priorities and loyalties of the american state. There is no lack of money, it seems a lack of will. I think few other countries if any display nearly the same visceral hatred of poor people or perpetuate a naive black white view of poverty as the US tends to do. This binary view leaves little room for adversity, bad luck or downturns with commentators in an unholy rush to tar them all as criminals, addicts or mentally unstable. It seems the expectation is the homeless should be at their best behavior while in abject poverty. Trying to 'help' these folks get back on their feet is 'unearned' and strikes at the identity of individualized americans for whom a bare decent life is a privilege to be earned. And resentment for 'freeloaders' reflexive and immediate. You can't have 'winners' without losers. The problem is the 'losers' are now in plain sight and making things unpleasant for the winners, and the urgency is not to address their suffering for they must suffer, but to dehumanize and get them out of sight so the 'winners' can carry on uninterrupted.