Santa Barbara is the only city I have been to that is not at war with the homeless. In Palm Springs you are rousted and ticketed, arrested, abused, and your civil rights revoked. The same in San Diego and Los Angeles and Chicago and New York.
It's a declared war, not unlike the war on drugs, that does not solve the problem. It turns it into a hydra: with every struck-off head, four more appear.
Not in Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is giving peace a chance, and it seems like a very good start.