> >When people talk of the military industrial complex, we know what it means. In SF there is a homelessness-industrial complex that exists for its own sake and

> >When people talk of the military industrial complex, we know what it means. In SF there is a homelessness-industrial complex that exists for its own sake and is better off perpetuating homelessness than solving it > this is utterly incredible. please do tell which services are rendered to the homeless at exorbitant cost to anyone (e.g. tax payers) such that it merits comparison with defense contractors. I don't know much about the situation, and do not mean to assert any facts here, only a different interpretation of the grandparent from the one I think you had. I think mc32 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21889186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21889186) was suggesting that the money is funneled to the people allegedly solving homelessness, not to the homeless themselves, and that those solvers have the perverse incentive that they are more interested in the continuing revenue stream than in actually solving the problem. Of course comparisons to the military-industrial complex are hyperbole: such expenditures will fall far short of those spent on defence, as all expenditures in the US do.