Several things you can do.

1. Empty Apartment SurCharge. If apartment Complex's want to Hold onto empty apartments.. This contributes to the housing Crisis and they should pay surcharges to fund Programs for Social Services.

2. Empty House Surcharge.. Stop Banks holding on to property to inflate housing prices. Either rent the house or sell it.

3. get over it.. People live in their cars. You can work full time in a decent job and not be able to afford the Local rents.

4. Stop with the awful fee's to get into an apartment. Such as the Application fee, credit check fee, first and last deposit. etc etc. Let people into apartment without red tape.

The solitary issue is lack of housing. This is solely due to the onerous and restrictive regulations that keep developers from building housing. Change that and there will be more housing at all income levels.

"solely due to the onerous and restrictive regulations that keep developers from building housing."

Nothing whatever to do, then (in your opinion) with a few large employers hiring so many thousands of people, so quickly, that they quantitatively outpaced even most prior growth rates for firms achieving similar sizes here in silicon valley, despite this regions's formidable prior history of hiring. Nothing to do with literally unprecedented demand growth from job and office-space creation.

I'm curious whether you are (a) associated with one of those hiring firms, (b) associated with one of the property developers or builders, or (c) are paid by one or the other? I don't know how else to explain so pointedly ignoring the major obvious factor, the elephant in the room.

Option 11

Since cities have been the main cause of our housing shortage, require that any building meeting code is approved. If cities create codes meant to stifle housing development, or impose subjective requirements on things like style, create an easy way to report such issues, and hold city leaders personally liable for any costs incurred by these local rules. Done. The housing problem will be solved without taxpayer money.

The drug addicts and mentally ill will not be able pay rent, no matter how much housing is available.

Register all street people, incl tenters and RVers. Determine the issue causing that persons homelessness and action accordingly.
A drug addict should not be afforded housing in front of someone who just needs to get back on their feet financially.
Those able but unwilling to pay rents should be fined daily.