Show of Hands

Re-open (better, make new!) the mental hospitals!
As for veterans, the VA doesn't have a good record; let them use the new hospitals.

Long-term homeless people have mental illness and/or substance abuse problems. There are a magnitude of programs to help homeless people if they no longer want to live on the streets. The courts have ruled that homeless people cannot be forced to abandon street life. Living on the street may be a misguided choice, but it is a choice to refuse help from the numerous agencies, organizations, and people who offer them assistance.

Most are veterans

Yes. Homelessness can perpetuate mental illness anyway

There are mentally ill and substance abusers mostly.

I don’t think I’m qualified to make that assessment. And there are also many that simply can not afford to live where they are anymore.

Not stable. They have had many chances. Programs. Something went wrong somewhere.

Sadly, I think they are.

I'm voting normal here, basically because I don't like the characterization of the mentally ill as "crazy." I think that's rather unkind.

Think of veterans with mental issues, maybe PTSD. No matter what one may think of them personally and privately, I'd rather not see them referred to that way publicly. And I'm not going to call people who served our country and came back damaged as a result "crazy."

And that's just one example, but it's one that tugs at my heart the hardest.

Maybe I can be a bit less emotional, and think about what constitutes "normal" another time.

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