The most infuriating thing isn’t so much that they can’t fix the homeless problem but that they can and choose not to. The stuff they did in San Francisco a month ago is exactly the same kinda BS lower level officials in China used to pull to make them look good to higher officials in the 90s/early 2000s. I guess President Xi is upper management for California now?
You cannot solve the homeless problem in the United States because it´s driven by poor overall policy based on ideology and the wishes of the incompetent and self-serving elites in politics, business, media and bureaucracy. The electorial base is also to blame. The homeless problem in the USA is driven by these factors;
X) Closing of mental institutions = More mentally ill persons on the streets
X) The introduction of hard drugs = More drug addicts
X) Deindustrialization = More poor and working poor in service jobs
X) Neo-liberalism and less government intervention = Expensive rents and housing
X) Abolishment of family and nation through diffrent liberal policies = More people are forced to fend for themselves
In the 1970s Nordic countries had almost no homeless people. Nordic countries had alcoholics but they had an apartment and government paid their rent. They spent their days drinking at park-bench but that was all. Now Nordic countries have homeless everywhere although less so than the United States. China, a developing country, is solving some of these issus while the United States and Western Europe do not.
A lot of normal people with college degrees will eventually end up on the streets. That is the the consequence when people vote for morons and morons are given important positions in elite institutions. Americans, and Californians in particular, clearly want tent cities everywhere. This is what Americans want;
Americans do not want this;
Sadly...