I was not being incomplete.
The lack of available spaces for the involuntarily committed is one of the problems that was conjoined with the issue of getting the commitment signed - the two issues go together; you cannot commit people if there is no place to go, and the theme at the time was “half way houses” and such, which (a) did not work in many cases, and (b) saw constant NIMBY issues, and (c) never got the per-patient resources that had been spent on the old institutions.
The problems are the problems, they are all related.
There used to be giant tower-like facilities; exploration of their ruins (and other commercial and residential ruins) is one of the things the You Tube show “The Proper People” features.
And that’s when government expenditures were smaller.
One problem today is optics. How does it look? Another problem is how will it be managed. In one sense a “skepticism of government” movement quite succeeded. And maybe it’s better for freedom in some sense that we have to face the occasional school shooter than see Jim Rob slammed in a mental facility for being sufficiently countercultural (even if he’s still wrong sometimes).