Yes, it is. We've underbuilt housing for decades in the US.

We solved it by dehumanizing the homeless.

SF has thrown nearly 3 billion at the problem, over the past 6 years [1], but the incompetence is too extreme [2].

1. https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...

2. https://nypost.com/2021/06/26/san-francisco-run-homeless-enc...