For all but the willfully blind, the homeless problem is out of control across California, particularly in San Francisco. Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor and current candidate for governor, has a plan to fix it. Newsom wants to create a new statewide homelessness council with a cabinet-level position. He might first check out the state capital of Sacramento, another city with a huge homeless population.
“More bureaucracy isn’t a solution for homelessness,” headlined the lead editorial in the March 24, 2016 edition of The Sacramento Bee, the newspaper of record in California’s capital. Every year, the editorial
