> Either that side doesn't want to solve the problems, or some combination of individual incentives, incompetence and lack of second-order thinking prevents it

> Either that side doesn't want to solve the problems, or some combination of individual incentives, incompetence and lack of second-order thinking prevents it from achieving its objectives. Homelessness cannot ever be solved at the city, or even state, level. Homeless will, very rationally, tend to migrate and cluster in areas where their lives are a little less bad. Homelessness can only truly be solved with a nation-wide consistent policy. Anything less simply amounts to shuffling them from one location to another.