I've made the case before that these non-profits work like the old lady who feeds pigeons in the park. The old lady likes the birds and wants to be kind to them, the pigeons however flock to her in great numbers and shit everywhere ruining the park for everyone else. People will say the comparison is dehumanizing to the homeless, which it is in a way, but I think it's dehumanizing of the non-profits to dole out food to the homeless like they are stray animals to be fed in the first place rather than getting them institutionalized for their mental health or drug addiction problems in the hopes that one day maybe they'll be able to break free of it.

Course other issues being the rent in San Francisco is too damn high. They're going to have to clear out some of their historic city to make way for high density housing and business developments if they hope to have the successfully low rates of urban homelessness you see in many Asian cities like Seoul or Tokyo.