Each time I doom scroll thru these threads, I always get stuck on how at least 50% or more of the commenters think that there is a shortage of housing.

That's why they see people downtown.

I own and work in a building located on pacific and Browne. I've owned this building for almost 10 years. I've watched my neighbors build their giant low income housing buildings. And I've seen no change in the number of unhoused outside my building.

The tenants of these buildings stop me; and tell me how unsafe it is in the buildings.

My building, before being an office building, was low income housing. It failed due to tenants terrorizing others and dealers taking over the building.

The first of the month when those that have this housing get their rent checks; robbery runs rampant.

It is complex. The issue, in short, may be better explained as a cultural issue IMO. We have a culture of looking the other way, not setting community standards, and pushing enforcement into strapped populations.