Great story. I'm happy to hear that officials are finally starting to wise up. Sand that mainstream media does such a shallow job of reporting these big issues. There is something VERY wrong in a society where there is so much $$ made off real estate and development yet we have so much homelessness. We're on a path to Rio de Janeiro where an impoverished population serves the wealthy. There are developers who who build $10mil vacation homes in HI for themselves. Tax the crap out of non-resident property owners. Have a functional rent control. And I know this will irk people but the military makes finding affordable rent here difficult. Look at DFAS website and see how much they're given for a housing allowance. Then they have multiple people sharing the rent of one unit and pocket the rest of the money. The state/C&C need to look at causes - not just the problem. Not all of the homeless are drug addicts.