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Originally Posted by JManc
Can't speak for Dallas but I'm in Houston at the moment and homeless here is also an issue but no where near the scale as it is in the Bay Area. Both the city and the state are more hostile to homeless encampments where as virtually every town on either side of the Bay has tent cities. Even my employer has a 'no tow' policy on all of their properties because people live in their cars in their parking lots.
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I won't downplay the terrible homeless problem in San Francisco, and much of the blame falls there. But one of the reasons for SF's homeless mess is a restrictive ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that, under the Eighth Amendment, it is cruel and unusual for a city to criminalize sleeping in public parks and on public sidewalks by those who have no alternative shelter. SF hasn't been able to muster a sufficient number of beds to clear out the camps. Texas isn't under that court's jurisdiction, though. Houston can roust anybody they want, whenever they want.