> Ultimately SF and the Bay Area seem to have enough wealthy corporations that, if someone were able to support it, it could totally work.
Isn't central SF - presumably the location that homeless people for various reasons prefer to be located in - so expensive that even software developers employed by these companies on salaries north of $100k per annum feel they're being priced out of it?
Like someone like Ellison or Page or Musk builds a big tower or buys up several blocks, maybe it's not even downtown.
OTOH, people would also want to live there with other people and other root cause problems would have to be addressed for many. So you might need many of these scattered around, and would need to figure out NIMBY factors.
But yeah, the idea is someone else would need to front that bill.
The TL does not have only SROs, and SROs do exist elsewhere. SROs are also not especially cheap; for example, the Adrian Hotel rents SROs for $700 a week (http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Adrian_Hotel). Of course many SRO residents also receive subsidies of various kinds.
Isn't central SF - presumably the location that homeless people for various reasons prefer to be located in - so expensive that even software developers employed by these companies on salaries north of $100k per annum feel they're being priced out of it?