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That’s just one county out of several in the Bay Area. Your study is also just a survey. There’s a good chance a mentally ill person will not consider themselve
by chaostheory 5y ago
That’s just one county out of several in the Bay Area. Your study is also just a survey. There’s a good chance a mentally ill person will not consider themselves mentally ill.
Nationally the percentage range from 60-80% of chronically homeless as mentally ill depending on the study.
- jeffbee 5y agoThat's consistent with the data here: 70% of them are mentally ill. But it's not considered the primary reason they are homeless. If you prefer to blame homelessness on mental illness, you need some kind of explanation for why homelessness has tripled in ten years, and why it's highly correlated with rents and anticorrelated with vacancy rates.
- chaostheory 5y agoBecause Reagan and the Kennedys made it so that you need direct consent from the mentally ill person for treatment. Otherwise, nothing can be done. Mental illness prevents many people from being able to hold down jobs and be independent when they are not getting needed treatment. You can't rely on the mentally ill to provide you with the real reason why they are homeless. That's a near useless survey. 80% of the homeless recover. It's mainly the mentally ill ones that stay chronic.
- masonic 5y ago>Because Reagan and the Kennedys made it so that you need direct consent No, that was the ACLU and the courts.
- chaostheory 5y agoNo, it was Reagan with the Kennedys helping promote and sponsor the legislation https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-mental-hospitals-contribute-to-homelessness-here https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-menta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...