'' The first wave of homeless were the younger people from San Francisco and Los Angeles, from affluent families. Many at draft age. The second wave were homeless that were given one-way tickets to Hawaii...where they would not be subjected to the winter season storms.''
HOGWASH, these 'waves' were at best manini! incoming homeless are always the vast minority here where the problems started in Chinatown in the '60s when corruption scandals plagued redevelopment, and of course promises were broken, it all went downhill from there and has never recovered. our politicians caused it and have callously nurtured it by omission.

''We are without the resources to care for them all''
BALONEY, we annually waste and misplace more than the entire cost of properly caring for the masses. we could have eradicated most homelessness many times over for what we've already blown.

you seem to be seriously ill informed or making things up, the facts of these issues have long been in public consumption.