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Shelters won't fix the issue. San Francisco did a breakdown on their homeless. Almost 75% have some chronic health problem. 15% have a traumatic brain injury
by bsder 5y ago
Shelters won't fix the issue.
San Francisco did a breakdown on their homeless.
Almost 75% have some chronic health problem. 15% have a traumatic brain injury.
That requires facilities for long term medical care. And it basically means universal healthcare.
Unfortunately this puts us back to "You know all those facilities that we closed back in the 70s? Yeah, closing them was a stupid idea and we needed to fix them instead."
- coryrc 5y agoSure, shelter, assisted living, prisons, whatever your poison, it's still far cheaper to do outside the area in 99th[0] percentile land costs. [0] spitballing here
- ianhawes 5y agoIt has been talked about ad nauseam that the closure of mental health facilities in the 70s has hurt us with chronic mental health issues today. The problem is that even if we did re-open them today, staffing them would be a nightmare. There is a nearby mental health facility run by my state. They simply do not have enough employees and cannot fill positions and it’s an issue that has existed since before the pandemic. It needs to happen, but it won’t be easy, so it probably won’t happen.
- cheriot 5y ago100% agree that we need a lot more mental health facilities. It's not about fixing every problem, but we can make the problem less bad. The instability and insecurity of sleeping outside makes everything else worse. There are also a lot of people that are functional, but end up homeless because housing is too expensive. Texas doesn't have better healthcare than California, but Houston has fewer homeless because housing is cheaper.