>Homelessness is a problem with or without the tech backdrop. Agreed. But is there something about the tech industry as practiced in Silicon Valley (the sheer

>Homelessness is a problem with or without the tech backdrop. Agreed. But is there something about the tech industry as practiced in Silicon Valley (the sheer concentration; how VC money might prevent the Schumpeterian forces of creative destruction from regulating the local economic cycle; the exercise of political clout) that has made homelessness there particularly bad? Has anywhere else in the country experience this kind of sustained housing boom, of this magnitude?