Affordable housing isn't the issue for most of the high profile homeless in San Francisco (ie the ones that defecate in the streets, steal cartloads from pharma

Affordable housing isn't the issue for most of the high profile homeless in San Francisco (ie the ones that defecate in the streets, steal cartloads from pharmacies, threaten you with a knife randomly, etc). But your point mostly holds true for them - we need the political willpower to involuntarily commit them until they are clean from their addictions and learn the skills to function in society.