That's a matter of definition. In Los Angeles I can easily find needles in the streets and large encampments of people on drugs. In say Tokyo, Copenhagen, Sto

That's a matter of definition. In Los Angeles I can easily find needles in the streets and large encampments of people on drugs. In say Tokyo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, I cannot. The money and resources we're throwing at the problem is being ineffectively allocated and structured because we're spending more and it's doing less. By solved here I mean if we spend billions on a problem we shouldn't be getting increasingly large sprawling encampments as a result. Even poorer cities with plenty of problems of their own like Mexico City and Bangkok had nothing like the issues I've seen on the streets of our wealthiest cities such as San Francisco. The problem is statecraft based on ideologies which don't consider efficacy as a core value Here's an example, in San Francisco there's a homeless RV park where the city is spending $140,000/year per space https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-rv-site-high-costs-18404155.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-rv... We could simply give people proper housing at a small fraction of that cost but there's a deep ideological commitment to it being "unearned" and because of these cultural ideologies we end up with the worst solutions at the highest prices. These myths of rugged individualism, isolated self improvement, the race to the bottom idea of equality, one of the only political groups that really calls horseshit on that is the left.