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.
Some of these people would be served better working on a farm. Many of these people are completely insane or in such a condition they cannot care for themselves and become transient. Reliant on food programs catered on the curb.
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.
Some of these people would be served better working on a farm. Many of these people are completely insane or in such a condition they cannot care for themselves and become transient. Reliant on food programs catered on the curb.