Homelessness has been particular grist for conservatives who see, in California’s homelessness crisis, the roosting of liberal licentiousness. “Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable,” wrote Heather Mac Donald, of the Manhattan Institute.44 Mac Donald is mistaken. San Francisco is eminently livable, which is why the average apartment sells for more than a million dollars. If San Francisco were unlivable, and people ceased to want to live there, the price of homes would plummet, and so too would the ranks of the
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