[gexla]

Right, it's an issue that requires intensive care to address mental health issues. The human resources required for this is always going to be a bottleneck. Much more so than housing shortages or funding for programs that are largely self service (if you can navigate the system, you may not be homeless for long.) Building, staffing, and funding such an institution seems like it would be extremely difficult.

[joshtbradley]

SF is currently spending $100K per homeless person. I agree, it will be extremely difficult, and that the human resources may be a bottleneck. But that's enough for an average person to live in SF, go out sometimes, and pay for therapy. There must be a way to deploy those funds effectively.

[sharts]

$100K per homeless and yet each homeless person doesn’t receive anywhere close to $100K of services.

[bix6]

I’ve heard that this is an over simplification and conflates a bunch of factors.

The big question I have is how do you help people who refuse to be helped? That’s an ethical dilemma not necessarily a $ question.

[parpfish]

the human resources required to make it work are a bottleneck, but even if we had the resources we need to build a humane modern asylum system, there'd be a whole slew of civil liberties issues