Ask500

Coming, as I do, from a generation when homelessness was rare, I don't either. I lived in San Francisco during the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of that time, there were almost no homeless people in downtown. I don't remember seeing a single one, but will allow that there might have been a few I didn't see. By the end of Reagan's first term, people were sleeping in doorways on Market Street.

Homelessness is an inevitable part of certain types of economic structure, not of civilization. Unfortunately for America, and now the rest of the world, the elite at the top who benefit from the misery of their fellow humans have captured our government, and allowed that type of economic system practically unchecked actions against the people of the world.