You believe it was a rhetorical question. It was a rhetorical question the same way "why is the sky blue?" is a rhetorical question.
Rayleigh scattering of sunlight by Nitrogen and Oxygen molecules, whose dimensions are ideal for scattering electromagnetic radiation at the red end of the visible light spectrum, such that mostly it is the blue and violet end of the spectrum that reaches the ground, and hence our eyes. The incident sunlight at the red end of the spectrum is preferentially guided 'around' the edges of the planet by this mechanism, which is why both sunrises/sunsets, and the Moon during a total lunar eclipse, appear red.
So poorly, that what Newsom did instead was to fund a massive anti-homelessness measure by gutting county mental health services. A more clear cut instance of robbing one Peter to pay another Peter could scarcely be conceived.
Correct. And homeless people are a complex and heterogeneous group, but no one thinks the sidewalk is their forever home. These encampments are routinely raided and harassed, and the people who live in them live difficult lives for a host of reasons. Most are trying earnestly to get out, but a person still needs somewhere to sleep at night if they do not have a home. Most of the encampments do not have much of a "permanent population", though there is some regularity to life in an encampment. There has to be, that's how humans operate and how the police keep the situation under dubious control.
I want people to have homes, dude. Not jail cells. If there were enough shelters, we wouldn't have encampments, but shelters are not a good end goal either. Have you ever spent time in one? Can you imagine living the rest of your life there? Shelters are a start, and we should certainly building them, more and better, but a homeless American is in need of more than just a shelter for tomorrow night. The United States has, in failing to meaningfully regulate the housing market or otherwise prevent it from becoming a casino, failed to provide sufficient housing for all of its citizens on a catastrophic scale. Your solutions aren't solutions, because they do not address the problem.
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