Yet homelessness, crime, drug abuse, and the quality of life in San Francisco have only gotten worse because there is no accountability in the city's government, so spending continues to increase with no end in sight. Homeless people comprise about 2.2% of the city's total population of about 860,000, and roughly $57,000 is spent on each homeless person annually. The facilities provided to homeless people are enormously inflated and the cost is passed to taxpayers.

San Francisco will have spent $1.1 billion on homelessness in the fiscal year 2021–22, which is more than some city's entire operating budgets. Yet homelessness, crime, drug abuse, and the quality of life in the city have only gotten worse.

According to an analysis by the Hoover Institute, since the fiscal year 2016–17, San Francisco has spent over $2.8 billion on homelessness, but year after year, the number of homeless in the city continues to spike, as do opioid overdoses, which outnumber Covid deaths as the city has become one of the most dangerous in the US.

The number of homeless in San Francisco has increased from 12,249 to 19,086 since 2016 equaling roughly 2.2 percent of the city's total population of about 860,000 which is over 12 times the national average. That amounts to roughly $57,000 spent on each homeless person annually.