> a lack of a social safety net That is so easy to disprove. SF spends 1.1B on homelessness (more than 50K per homeless person). Federal government spends 6-70

> a lack of a social safety net That is so easy to disprove. SF spends 1.1B on homelessness (more than 50K per homeless person). Federal government spends 6-700B on medicaid (health services for poor). California's 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. Maybe, you can complain that that spending is "inefficient", but that becomes a political barb-trading after that.