OPINION: Those who advocate various solutions to homelessness but do not stress government involvement beyond S.F. are playing politics rather than trying to solve a complex problem. They are engaged in performative progressivism and angry chest-thumping.
Whether you think of homelessness as contributing to fear and crime in The City, driving away businesses and tourists and making life more difficult for everybody, or as a humanitarian crisis in which thousands of people in San Francisco struggle to find a safe and warm place to sleep at night — or whether you support draconian “round 'em up and ship 'em away” measures or more compassionate efforts to make housing and treatment for mental illness and substance abuse more accessible — we...
What’s needed is a federal policy to ensure that all Americans, even if they live in San Francisco or other big cities, have access to affordable housing. This would require coordinated efforts around housing, wages and employment, education, health care and other areas throughout all levels of government.
America’s federalist system often makes it confusing to determine what level of government is responsible for solving what problems, but the extent to which homelessness is seen as the exclusive responsibility of municipal governments is absurd. For Republicans, it is also a lot easier to demonize big cities and the Democrats who run them than it is to try to help. Democratic presidential administrations further find it more politically useful to sidestep homelessness and frame it as a problem for cities to solve.
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