[Jonty30]

Drugs, mostly. My experience with homeless people is that they are less interested in getting off the street than they are in getting off the drugs.

We should be prepared to institutionalize such people. We can design mental hospitals to give them a sense of having an apartment. It doesn’t need to be old-style of 4 white walls and a sparse bed.

[Steely Tom]

We should be prepared to institutionalize such people. We can design mental hospitals to give them a sense of having an apartment. It doesn’t need to be old-style of 4 white walls and a sparse bed.

Problem with that is that the people you have to hire to take care of them will abuse the **** out of them.

That's one reason the asylums got closed down in the first place.

[morphing libertarian]

two reasons, I don;’know the numbers, a choice to lead a listless life. Mental illness. people released from hospitals and prisons often have prescriptions. In the facilities someone watches them take their meds. On the street, not so much.

Cops or triage teams need to screen homeless. If they are listless throw the book at them every violation. If they are mentally ill, they need to have community facilities where they stay till they take meds. No living on the street. Illegal to sleep, crap, and camp on public or other’s property.

[metmom]

We can design mental hospitals to give them a sense of having an apartment. It doesn’t need to be old-style of 4 white walls and a sparse bed.

Why not?

[Pelham]

“We should be prepared to institutionalize such people. “

This cannot be emphasized enough. The policy of de-institutionalization that became popular in the 60s and 70s is a great failure.

It’s no good for the mentally ill, and it’s no good for the cities where they wander the streets.

” We can design mental hospitals to give them a sense of having an apartment. It doesn’t need to be old-style of 4 white walls and a sparse bed.”

There is some of this being done here in OC, but only on a small scale. A much more humane way of treatment than the old prison looking institutions.

[JimRed]

We should be prepared to institutionalize such people. We can design mental hospitals to give them a sense of having an apartment. It doesn’t need to be old-style of 4 white walls and a sparse bed.

Who's going to pay for it?

[goldstategop]

I’m technically homeless. Then again, I’m forced to take drugs to maintain my health and not because I’m a drug addict.

And I need help to take them hence I’m now living in an assisted living apartment. I consider myself fortunate.

Being without a place to live should be on no one’s list of the good life.

[sarge83]

Mental illness and drug abuse seem to be the causes in my small town. The mental health laws of this country are an abomination.