Total linkbait. Just google: SF homeless problem. And see how many articles come up, from so many people. Singling this guy out is completely arbitrary. It's also unoriginal, in the general sense.[1] [edit: also, this problem is 40-50 years old, so its not fundamentally <i>new</i>.]<p><i>The homeless problem? Spot on, again. Perhaps - just maybe - the city of San Francisco should dedicate some of that time it spends trying to pass inane legislation (circumcision ban, I'm looking at you!) to trying to REALISTICALLY address the homeless problem. This might blow most of your minds, I know - but I've lived in Chicago, DC, NYC, and LA - and there are more homeless people here than those cities combined.</i><p>===<p><i>And about why there are so many homeless… first of all, who cares, because having such destitution in the streets only serves to bring down the mood of the place… but if you must, have you ever considered that the explosion of homeless in SF resulted to the city’s expansion of homeless programs and shelters? In other words, your getting the cause and effect confused. The city attracted, and created by way of its hippy drug happy culture, a slew of schizo drugged out homeless people… and all the soup kitchens are just a responsive measure to all that.</i><p>===<p><i>San Francisco. If there were an official city scent, it would be hobo piss. That's because hobos are everywhere, and piss is what they do for a living. Well, not just piss, obviously. They also drop so much excrement on the escalators in the city's train stations that they're sometimes rendered inoperable from the sheer volume of poo gumming up the works. How bad can it be, you ask? Well, the city had to call in a hazmat team to clean up one recent mess. There was just that much poop. On the escalator. The public escalator.</i><p>===<p>[1] EG, <i>"Tech Founder Complains About the Shithole City He's Forced to Make His Millions In"</i>. I won't link to it out of principle, but google will send you there. That was a different person, though. Surprise surprise.