The phrase 'rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic' is appropriate here. The problems are a lot more regional than the national political media would have

The phrase 'rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic' is appropriate here. The problems are a lot more regional than the national political media would have you believe, because SF is not an island in the ocean. The East Bay and the South Bay are all in similar economic conditions. There's been an uptick in homelessness in the once-suburban commuter cities, and if those places can't provide services then migration to SF is one possibility because more services are provided in the city. People might be able to get a hotel room in SF, for example. "New data shows explosive growth of homelessness in these Bay Area suburbs, May 2022" https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/east-bay-homeless-17179271.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/east-bay-homeles... One of the main political flashpoints in SF is this: nobody wants homeless services in their neighborhoods, and the wealthier the locale, the more political power they have, and so that's where you'll see police responding to homeless mental health incident disturbances. The result is a ridiculously wealth-stratified city, with the police basically being asked to serve as a barrier between the wealthy regions and the poor regions. This isn't even something the state of California can address: if all the money in the state went into providing housing and services for the bottom rung of society, and no other state did that, you'd again have the migration problem. See the Great Depression and 'Grapes of Wrath', for example. Indeed, it is an international problem as all the desperate poor people seeking entry to the USA over the past decade demonstrates.