Your caricature is way off. What people are really afraid of is being stabbed. These aren't 'poor families' with no homes, these are filthy crazy people. My mor

Your caricature is way off. What people are really afraid of is being stabbed. These aren't 'poor families' with no homes, these are filthy crazy people. My morning walk to work is up Powell street, tons of them hang out there because of all the tourists. Every morning I walk up a river of piss as all the businesses wash off the human excrement. The range of sanity seems to go from 'has a screw loose' to 'totally gone'. Meanwhile back home in the east bay my wife can't take the baby for a stroll without being harassed by these people at the parks and paths around the city. I roll my eyes every time somebody self righteously points out that 'we should all feel really bad for these poor people'. Enough is enough. I refuse to talk to them anymore, I will never give money to a panhandler again. I'm going to carry pepper spray for when(not if) I have an altercation with one. I know many people who have. Don't know the solution to this but the typical progressive answers "universal basic income" and "free housing" are laughably naive in this context. Who is going to volunteer to have the apartment complex full of babbling lunatic druggies in their neighborhood?