measuring dollars per homeless person is useless, you're right. SF isn't spending money on people who are homeless, they're spending money to prevent the number

measuring dollars per homeless person is useless, you're right. SF isn't spending money on people who are homeless, they're spending money to prevent the number of homeless from rising. If suddenly all 7000 homeless people left san francisco they would still need to spend money on the system to keep others from falling into homelessness