The City Council's approach to homelessness is beyond schizophrenic. It rousts individual small homeless camps but is prepared to throw a million at R2D2, in line with the enablement of Dignity Village. It builds places like Bud Clark Commons for a small number of people so down and out that little effort is made to guide or police their self-destructive activities and habits (my guess would be that many of these relative expensive apartments have been trashed). Meanwhile thousands patiently follow the rules and wait on lists to be approved for affordable housing with HUD or City City Concern, etc. There's no way they can demand money or concessions from the city or jump to the top of the list. The lesson the city is teaching people is that if they get together in a group to break the law, they'll get attention and be rewarded. If they play by the rules or simply try to survive on their own, they can expect to wait or be punished. Meanwhile, all that seems to be going up is "affordable" (which is not) or "market rate" apartments with no little to no parking and many monthly fees . . . sometimes replacing what used to be affordable alternatives for low or middle income renters. And for someone like Councilman Dan Saltzman to declare that the City need no longer concentrate on the plight of the truly low income renter and should instead be looking at helping out the middle income renters simply . . . boggles . . . the . . . mind.