(11-03-2022, 09:23 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

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

The problems are myriad, but the common denominators are drugs which are more highly addictive than ever, and a laissez-faire attitude of local governments trending left for the past decade. 
The cities which bear the biggest brunt of this crisis are the ones who declared themselves as sanctuaries from big mean common sense policies.

As the narrator states in “Seattle is Dying” while showing the scene of the crazed addict raving in the middle of a sidewalk, “How is this compassion?”

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