I don't live in SF so I won't speak to their particularities but in the cities I have lived in the shelter capacity is below the homeless population, that's for

I don't live in SF so I won't speak to their particularities but in the cities I have lived in the shelter capacity is below the homeless population, that's for sure. The sad truth is the easiest way for a homeless person to get a place to sleep and a reliable food supply is to be incarcerated. It is something I don't hear a lot of people talking about but a non-trivial part of our absurdly large prison population are people who habitually reoffend because they have nowhere else to go to begin with. Once you've got a criminal record and you already have no support system on the outside, breaking the cycle is damn near impossible. We end up paying for it either way so it is a problem worth addressing, at least in my opinion.