People keep saying they were so sure Trump would beat Clinton but to the best of my memory not a single person saying this made the claim that Trump would lose the popular vote by a significant margin and then squeak in because of electoral college luck.
If he could sound so good why did he get so many fewer votes than his opponent in both elections? That sounds like someone people dislike to me.
Actually, I think I was among a tiny fraction of people who were warning he could win and my opinion was based solely on the lack of credibility I thought I saw paid to what I observed to be a dangerous ability he had to appeal to a deeply suppressed side of human nature, the suppression of which creates a profound psychological need for release. Millions of people, the majority may have already know who Trump was, but he was successfully able with Russian help, to sell himself to the psychologically unsophisticated sufficiently to win. I believed and still believe Democrats couldn't see that coming and didn't react, mainly because all they could see was a criminal clown and not a dangerous master manipulative psychopath. The prick still has his fangs sunk deep in the necks of millions of people and it isn't over yet.
I hope you will understand that I profoundly admire your intellectual acumen and deep rationality but I also am rather convinced that when it comes to understanding how people work at an unconscious level, I see more deeply into that than you do. This is why I think your efforts and opinions surrounding things like homelessness, while profoundly rational and make good technical sense would, if enacted cause a war within the Democratic Party. I think that is obvious enough to enough politicians in Sacramento, that efforts in your direction haven't gotten anywhere. That makes for a situation, then and in my opinion, where we get nothing or we try something else. To my way of thinking, for example, that will mean shifting demand for housing to the creation of desirability, opportunities for employment to other places in California and other states. Maybe we need to switch from things like Silicon Valley to Silicon State or even nation through Business Campuses and distributive manufacturing, and scientifically designed cities. We might also want to try communal villages where groups of say 30 people have private rooms for personal living but common kitchens where meal preparation and toilet facilities are shared.
Anonymity, in my opinion, is a prime cause of human despair. Feeling loved and belonging somewhere is good for the development of empathy, I think.
NYC has some pretty high density housing. How are the rents? Can you rent at minimum wage and raise a family? I really don't know but I wouldn't live there. Terms like concrete jungle don't happen without reason.