From tents to hospitals

The University of Clifornia in San Francisco surveyed the homeless. More than a quarter said they had been hospitalised for mental illness. Two-thirds said they were currently stuggling with a mental-health condition. One third said they were using methamphetamine. This dangerous condition of drug use, mental illness and sleeping rough has increased homeless death to 2200 last year in LA County. California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, wants to use a 6,400,000,000 $ bond issue to build 10,000 treatment beds and housing units. Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York set aside 1,000,000,000 $ in her 2024 budget for hospital beds and housing. California also wants to increase involuntary treatment, mostly with long-term injection of anti-psychotics of people in the community.