like many cities, san francisco hasn't made much progress in reducing the numbers of destitute. >> police clearing homeless people from one block, only to end up on another days, sometimes just hours later. unhoused people refusing shelter or medical treatment and the city's inability to force anyone to accept help. >> there's people who truly don't believe that homelessness is solvable. and those people tend to really believe that people are choosing to be homeless. and they then, by association, support cracking down on homeless people. and that if you make it uncomfortable for them, they will simply disappear. >> jennifer -- is the executive director of the coalition on homelessness. her group has repeatedly sued the city for things like homeless sweeps, destruction of