San Francisco in 2019 arguably has more wealth concentrated within it than any place at any other time in history.
Making poor and mentally ill people sleep on the street is a choice you have made as a society. Places with far, far fewer resources have somehow managed to sort this problem out.
Build houses for them, for one. Make housing cheaper in the first place, so they don't go on the streets. At a bare minimum, at least have sufficient shelters for them so they don't have to sleep on the streets. (Almost) no one wants to sleep on the street, and San Francisco has more than enough money to make it so they don't have to. Heck, some individual Bay Area companies have enough money for it, not that they would ever spend it on the homeless.
Free housing, food, and healthcare for every human being. Figure out how they can contribute back to society once they are no longer sleeping at a bus stop.
Have you actually been to SF? Nobody makes these people do anything. In any sane polis, you'd institutionalize the ones that require it, and run the rest off. SF's leaders pride themselves on adopting the opposite approach.
Yes, its sure to solve their homeless problem by putting them on a bus and dropping them in a desert.
I mean, it will solve their homelessness problem. When they are dead.
That is such a gross and inhumane way to approach it. If people are homeless you figure out why that is and fix it so they can be housed, not kick the can over the fence into the next precinct over.
The mindset that it sure it inconsiderate of people to exist and be inconvenient in their existence is why the problem happens in the first place. Have some damn humility and empathy, there is no gene to be homeless, its a product of circumstance and bad luck. For every lucky bastard who grows up with the right people to make the right connections to get the right break to make it rich there is someone who grows up with the wrong people who abandon them to drug addiction and the streets.
99% of the time the only thing separating you from anyone else you walk past on the street are the collective circumstances that led you to where you are now. Nothing innate preordained your successes or failures.
Making poor and mentally ill people sleep on the street is a choice you have made as a society. Places with far, far fewer resources have somehow managed to sort this problem out.