> I’m much more concerned about mental health and access to short term housing You should be more concerned about general restrictions on housing construction.

> I’m much more concerned about mental health and access to short term housing You should be more concerned about general restrictions on housing construction. Mental health is not magically better in Japan and yet we don't see this kind of vagrancy there. But they also don't have the kind of nimbyism that plagues American cities with "intractable" homelessness problems.