I don't mean to be harsh, but that sounds a little hand-wavy. Could you elaborate on what types of businesses you have in mind? I don't think education and inc

I don't mean to be harsh, but that sounds a little hand-wavy. Could you elaborate on what types of businesses you have in mind? I don't think education and income inequality are the real issue here. For the long-term homeless, it's not that they lack job skills. Nor is it that the poor make too little (which they do). Rather, most of these people are disabled, and that is the root cause of their homelessness. In fact, a lot of them do have good educations and once held well-paying jobs. But then something happened: A traumatic head injury, the onset of serious mental illness, an addiction. Also, note that I explicitly rejected charity as the primary solution to the problem. So yeah, I agree with you that it's not about charity. What I'm suggesting is that governments provide even a minimal safety net. (In some places they do. I don't know what the situation is in SF.)