tl;dr: Betteridge's Law of Headlines One of the tragic tropes of San Francisco is that people often and loudly think homelessness just needs to be "fixed," and

tl;dr: Betteridge's Law of Headlines One of the tragic tropes of San Francisco is that people often and loudly think homelessness just needs to be "fixed," and that it just takes getting the right person into office to do so. But there ain't no silver bullet and these issues are complicated. It seems like SF has been moving in good directions as far as dialing down the "arrest the homeless" strategy propounded by carpetbaggers offended that the sidewalks don't remind them of Topeka, the evolution of Navigation Centers, and other homeless-directed policies. Frankly, zoning and development issues seem easy compared to homelessness. It's popular to dehumanize those without money, so the ideas only trickle in. Flint, MI still has poisoned tap water, after all.