> When asked to self-report in a city survey, 25 percent of unhoused respondents cited job loss as the primary cause of their homelessness, 18 percent cited sub

> When asked to self-report in a city survey, 25 percent of unhoused respondents cited job loss as the primary cause of their homelessness, 18 percent cited substance abuse and 13 percent eviction; only 8 percent listed mental illness. Did they not consider that there could be a whole complete graph of chicken-egg relationships between these causes? Is this stupid survey really the city's response to such an urgent issue? It is hard to watch people (journalists, citizens) run around in circles trying to find the cause of the homelessness problem in SF when it's painfully obvious what the terrible policies at the root of the issue are. People should be way past debating what caused the problem. Ultimately, it was incompetent leadership. But the people get what they ask for.