As easy as it is to blame this on rich people not wanting to pay taxes, tax payers have been quite willing to spend money on the homeless. SF spent $241 millio

As easy as it is to blame this on rich people not wanting to pay taxes, tax payers have been quite willing to spend money on the homeless. SF spent $241 million last year: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record-241-million-on-homeless-6808319.php http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record... At roughly 7k homeless people we're spending ~35k/homeless person in SF and making no headway. Which makes you wonder if throwing more money at it is the right answer. LA recently voted to approve $335 million in funding for homeless people, but even before then was struggling to spend the money they had, at least partly due to NIMBYism: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-city-homeless-budget-20170602-story.html http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-city-homeless-bu... (not the article I was trying to find, but does mention some struggles spending the money).