The way I see it, the main way in which the citizens of SF can fix it is by voting for something different, but they don't. So it certainly does seem like they find the status quo preferable to alternatives.

Not really. People have just deluded themselves into thinking that the current situation is somehow more humane than mandatory rehab and institutionalization.

Blame the homeless and people trying to help them, take the blame off the real problem: few available homes with high prices[1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10574586/#:~:te....

But the citizens of SF can just stop electing local governments that fund this, yet they don't. I can certainly see how they contributed to causing the crisis (i.e. by electing people who caused it), but I don't see how they profit from it, unless the people in SF likes such conditions, which seems pretty weird, at least to me.