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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes it started with closing the institutions.
Yes there is not enough funding. Mental health services for people whose families are taking care of them is a separate topic imo - there needs to be reforms but it’s just a different area of concern.
People on the streets need to be put into housing on cheaper land with round the clock medical care. It’s ok if they only have a bed and not a room, let alone a house to themselves. Someone needs to monitor their medications. They should not be allowed to camp out on city streets.
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Your suggestion is to target the end point and not the crises and problems that get people to that end point.  Also, you are talking about taking away free will.  At least some people on the streets are choosing their fate.  Not everyone wants housing and medical care and even less what institutional living.  If that were the case, people would be going to homeless shelters instead of staying on the streets.

I don't think that either suggestion is the answer to the problem.  If you intervene at an earlier point, then maybe you can avoid reaching the point where someone ends up on the streets.

And, yeah, I am taking care of my child.  But, I'm going to die and the street is a very real possibility.  And, it wouldn't be the first time because even though we are willing to do everything we can, people have free will.  [/quote]

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