(11-03-2022, 06:40 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(11-02-2022, 10:30 PM)mikesez Wrote: Lack of housing and mental illness are a cycle. 
They don't want to build more housing, is basically the entire problem.
If these people weren't evicted due to decades of new money coming in chasing old buildings, they wouldn't be on the street, and they wouldn't be mentally ill.

It seems like you're saying they're homeless because of mental illness, and they're mentally ill because of homelessness.  

So, if we build homes for them, and we get them on medication, has anyone figured out the cost of that?

The studies show they are homeless because of drug addiction. Whether that's tied to mental illness or not probably varies from person to person. In any case, Seattle police don't even bother to arrest them any longer for theft or public vagrancy because they will be ordered to release them in 24 hours anyway. That's why RI went to incarceration and intervention. Per the video, Seattle has a large facility of some sort sitting empty. Better to spend money on turning that into a secure rehab center than to lose tax revenue from businesses failing and people leaving Seattle.

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