Not long ago, I visited a public park in San Francisco and witnessed a most astonishing thing: The park was orderly, lots of kids were playing, the public bathrooms were clean and there wasn’t a homeless person — let alone an open-air drug market — in view.

The poll also found that addressing housing and homelessness was far and away the biggest shortcoming of state government — and the most pressing issue facing California, which has the nation ...

California, the experts say, is 2.5 million housing units short. That means even if the $24 billion spent in the last seven years was done so to rent a basic studio apartment for each and every unhoused individual in California it couldn’t be done as there is not enough housing.

At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Councilmember Nick Bavaro rebuked Newsom’s approach, saying that it wouldn’t fix the issue for a number of reasons and that for the governor to speak in the manner he did was “not the correct way to go.”