Reality check: our unsheltered "homeless" population is almost 100% mentally ill and substance abusing. Many refuse to go to shelters in the first place. The rest behave in ways that necessitate kicking them out of shelters before their behavior causes all the other inhabitants to leave. Our "homeless" population is the direct result of laws and policies that shut down nearly all long-term residential psych hospitals and make it impossible to force mentally ill people into any kind of treatment until after they kill someone.
I know this is gonna be an unpopular thing to say, but there’s a reason mental asylums are abandoned and covered by forests today. We have a Dark past relating to mental health in the U.S and lots of these facilities were committing human rights violations out the ass. What you say about many of the homeless not wanting help is true though, and I agree with you; just disagree with the idea that we should go back to mental institutions. The best way to solve homelessness in the US is to create jobs like Donald J Trump did and give them to AMERICANS rather than illegal Aliens being used as heap labor.
Homelessness in this country is not about lack of jobs. And dumping crazy people onto the streets where they commit offenses against random people all day every day all over the country is not better than crazy people havibg their "human rights" violated. The only thing that's needed to prevent real systematic rights abuses in locked psych facilities is to eliminate ALL the "privacy" laws, which are actually "secrecy" laws. When the whole world can see exactly what's going on inside locked facilities the abuses will stop. Crazy people have no need for "privacy" at the expense of sane people's (and their own) safety.
Reality check: our unsheltered "homeless" population is almost 100% mentally ill and substance abusing. Many refuse to go to shelters in the first place. The rest behave in ways that necessitate kicking them out of shelters before their behavior causes all the other inhabitants to leave. Our "homeless" population is the direct result of laws and policies that shut down nearly all long-term residential psych hospitals and make it impossible to force mentally ill people into any kind of treatment until after they kill someone.
I know this is gonna be an unpopular thing to say, but there’s a reason mental asylums are abandoned and covered by forests today. We have a Dark past relating to mental health in the U.S and lots of these facilities were committing human rights violations out the ass. What you say about many of the homeless not wanting help is true though, and I agree with you; just disagree with the idea that we should go back to mental institutions. The best way to solve homelessness in the US is to create jobs like Donald J Trump did and give them to AMERICANS rather than illegal Aliens being used as heap labor.
Homelessness in this country is not about lack of jobs. And dumping crazy people onto the streets where they commit offenses against random people all day every day all over the country is not better than crazy people havibg their "human rights" violated. The only thing that's needed to prevent real systematic rights abuses in locked psych facilities is to eliminate ALL the "privacy" laws, which are actually "secrecy" laws. When the whole world can see exactly what's going on inside locked facilities the abuses will stop. Crazy people have no need for "privacy" at the expense of sane people's (and their own) safety.
I agree with both the solution and the transparency into it.