criminalization 

Everyone in this housing sector understands that the services and opportunities to obtain affordable housing exists. California (and the nation) is rapidly obtaining tax credits and complying with the income restrictions to those ends. The problem is that people DO choose to be homeless: whether through lack of self-accountability, unwillingness to comply with shelter policies regarding drug use, or simply too much people as illegals are given far more preferential treatment than our homeless Americans. The ONLY reason money/resources is being spent toward incarceration the way the mood is swinging now..... is because.....How long as it been since 2010 of the infamous Google Poop Maps? How long as it been since then? And it's only getting worse!!! Nobody wants to incarcerate anyone that's experiencing hardships. Nobody wants to be the person that only adds hardship to those experiencing homelessness. But you CANNOT BLOCK A SIDEWALK, you CANNOT harass everyday Californians at the grocery store for spare change that is inevitably used for drug use or enabling a degenerate lifestyle. And you Can't expect the Public to sit there and take it. We all are sympathetic, but sympathy has a limit. The reason why Jordan Neely in NYC died tragically was because his own family enabled him to be homeless for upward to 10+ years before he died due to chokehold in self-defense situation where he was a threat to other subway passengers. People are not born into this world to exhibit hostility to the homeless, we are not born evil. But we do evil things in the name of self-preservation.