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Homelessness (which often, but not always, goes hand in hand with mental illness) is an epidemic in NYC (as well as other cities) and should be treated as such.
by dr_ 4y ago
Homelessness (which often, but not always, goes hand in hand with mental illness) is an epidemic in NYC (as well as other cities) and should be treated as such.
Instead of waiting to build homes, which are shot down by the NIMBY folk or find more psych beds, cities need to take more aggressive measures. During the height of the pandemic, the Javits Center was going to essentially be used as a hospital. That level of thinking is going to be required to address the situation cities face today. Ships. Shipping containers (a la Qatar). Everything should be on the table. Combine this with security, aides, some level of nursing care and telemedicine psychiatry, with medication delivery.
It can be done. Requires the willpower to do it.
50 more psych beds won’t cut it.
- latchkey 4y agoI felt like the 50 beds was added at the end as a sort of /s.
- FollowingTheDao 4y agoYou have NO idea what it is like in these hospitals. NO IDEA. It is safer and healthier to live on the street. The solution is easy bu they truth is no one cares. No one cares about the mentally ill homeless. No one. I know this because I ma mentally ill and homeless now for four years. People would rather make bank off an AirBnB than rent it to me for half the price and still make it so I am paying of f half their mortgage. It is just greed, simple greed, with everyone. I am not even asking for much, a simple studio, but no one cares, so I get worse and worse and then you will all pay SO MUCH MORE when I am in the hospital and medicare has to pay for my $10,000 a week hospitalization. It is all so idiotic.
- voakbasda 4y agoYou want an Airbnb owner to subsidize your rent to the tune of half of their unit’s mortgage cost, when they could pay the entire mortgage as it is? Maybe they cannot afford to carry half a mortgage? Maybe you should not expect them to?