> Are these real jobs? Where are they operating and has anyone verified their effectiveness? In the last decade, I haven’t seen the poop problem get any better in the Mission, SoMA, and the Tenderloin…

It's interesting to note which jobs get this treatment ("is X doing its job? The problem X supposedly solves isn't getting any better) and which jobs get the opposite treatment ("X is clearly necessary, because without them the problem X solves would be even worse).

I’d say the same thing about the billion+ a year the city spends on homeless “programs”