The reason why Rome does not have homeless people on the streets there is because people can get a shower and a bed for $15 per night.
California needs hostels like Rome, for $15 per night for a shower and a bed, and the hostels need to be listed on the web, etc, and need to be easy to find.
Rome is amazing, and I want to go back, meanwhile one of my Buddies wants for me to try to use what I learned in order to make California better, he wants me to share my ideas with California, and he wants for me to help California to become more like Rome.
So we need fountains, and statues, and outdoor landscaping, and cobblestone courtyards, etc.
Here is a cool, cheap Hotel in Rome in the neighborhood where I spent 6 weeks back in 2003... I will return when I can...
http://www.hotelivanhoe.it/And a thing in Rome, it is the Christian capital of the world, there are churches all over, and you can feel the love in the streets, the people are so kind there. California needs more churches, and more kindness.
One cool area in the USA is Saint Augustine, Florida, they have cobblestone streets, it is really a beautiful City. The USA can learn from Saint Augustine.
As we build new housing here in Anaheim we need to include amazing landscaping like in Italy. And we need hostels, etc.
And California has great weather so we need swimming pools and tennis courts, etc. And great outdoor spaces.
Salute,
Tony V.