The severely mentally ill need a private room, a day room, safe environment, access to the out doors and work to do if they can. All backed by techs who will insure that medications will be taken. With sufficient oversight to prevent abuse.
Yep. And we can’t return to that soon enough.
My guess is that the fools that we have for elected officials won’t act until tolerating the homeless results in a lot of non-homeless deaths from some outbreak of typhus or cholera or one of the other forgotten plagues that public hygiene suppresses.
In my professional fantasies villages exist within every large city like youndescribe, completely enclosed and safe, with varying degrees of freedom within their walls, for the untreatably mentally ill.
As far as freedom goes, I’d give them access 4x a year or so to a panel of experts to determine whether they are competent enough for true freedom.
If they don’t pass, giving these helpless people the care and supervision they need is better than freedom. Kinder.