The homeless population is a regional phenomenon, SF isn't an isolated island: http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/report/bay-area-homelessness-2/ http://www.bayarea

The homeless population is a regional phenomenon, SF isn't an isolated island: http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/report/bay-area-homelessness-2/ http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/report/bay-area-homelessness-2... > "The Bay Area’s homeless population today is larger, less sheltered, and growing faster than ever before. Between 2017 and 2020, the Bay Area’s homeless population grew by 6,878 individuals to a total of 35,118—accounting for more than a quarter of the growth in the total U.S. homeless population." Some of the Covid emergency programs sort of worked by putting people in hotels, but those hotels are pretty sketchy places at best. This might account for the apparently flat rate in SF but anyone walking around the poorer neighborhoods can see it with their own eyes: https://www.kqed.org/news/11914346/more-people-became-unhoused-across-the-bay-area-over-last-3-years-except-in-sf https://www.kqed.org/news/11914346/more-people-became-unhous... That's only part of the picture: the growing gap between wealthy and poor is a more significant long-term issue.