As I understand it, San Francisco reportedly has an even worse problem than Seattle with drug addiction and homelessness, despite more/higher taxes across the b

As I understand it, San Francisco reportedly has an even worse problem than Seattle with drug addiction and homelessness, despite more/higher taxes across the board. Therefore, it is not clear that taxes alone will fix this problem; in fact, by purely looking at the data here on the west coast, it would appear higher taxes correlates with worse problems of this sort. Note that I'm obviously not claiming that higher taxes necessarily cause worse problems, but a negative correlation like this is strong evidence against any claims for a positive causation of (higher taxes -> less homelessness and drug addiction). There have been many articles and studies written elsewhere on drug addiction and homelessness, so I won't repeat the details -- but my understanding is that the general consensus is that solving this requires policy change more so than funding change (but obviously both are necessary for the best results).