The money being spent on "fixing homelessness" is a small fraction of the money that was being spent on the (admittedly terrible) mental health medical facilities that California shut down back in the 1970s.

"A failing mental health system leaves this mother pleading: Keep him in jail"

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-12/one-moms...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/...