re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Patchwork solutions often make things worse, but are seen as easier than approaching the structural problems of homelessness that have beset places such as the SF Bay area.
Ran across an article on that earlier this week:
One of the ‘structural problems’ we have is nice weather. Homeless people come here - and who can blame them? - because they won’t freeze to death. But the housing situation is worse than anywhere else in the country.