This is an interesting idea. What makes you think better immigration would apply to this problem?
Do you think more cultures would displace the homeless? Or they would be more able to care for the vulnerable population? Immigration is less restrictive now than 50 years ago, but this problem seems worse now than in 1970, right?
I’m all for improved immigration policy, don’t don’t see the connection.
It depends on one's perspective of the cause of the tenderloin being the tenderloin.
My view is that the land and infrastructure in the tenderloin is being horribly misused.
Not only does it provide shelter for some people, but it is also an environment where hard drugs and crime are rampant.
Immigrants would be willing to settle in some of the more grungy areas, and would quickly clean them up through investment in little things that make a big difference, such as reporting crimes, cleaning up messes, warding off those who have no concern for the value of the neighborhood.
There will still need to be housing and treatment for the indigent and addicted, but there is no reason that miles of productive urban space should be blighted for decades due to being overtaken by squalor and crime.
Immigrants would revitalize it by filling it with non-addicted and ambitious people who would strive to make it their home.
The blighted areas should be thriving and bustling, full to the brim with immigrants from all over the world, but we turn them away.