There are no homeless people sleeping in tents... They are instead mentally ill people sleeping in tents. And what they truly need is a mental institution to house and control them.
Mental health authorities are shunning their responsibilities and not dealing with individuals who should be under their care and supervision. They instead rely on the families of these sick individuals to deal with their sickness... And these families don’t have the means or the ability to do so.
The end result... Mentally ill people wandering the streets, many of them hooked on drugs and acting dangerous towards themselves and towards the strangers they meet. It’s a recipe for disaster. Building more jails is a great idea... Building more mental institutions (many of them shuttered in the 80s and 90s), should be an even higher priority.
The streets of north America are teaming with mentally ill individuals walking around like timebombs and there is only one way to cleanup those streets... Mental institutions.
Yes
Involuntary conservatorships.
With such safeguards as ombudsmen, appeal rights and yearly review.
And the mentally ill housing complexes can be in remote locations. Not prime real estate areas. No one has a “right” to live in down San Francisco or etc.
“...these families don’t have the means or the ability to do so”
Many families have exhausted lots of their savings trying to help their relations on the streets. Some succeed but many fail. It takes many families a LONG time to realize the futility of trying to help those who do not really want help and then having to finally give up after exhausting everything. The mental exhaustion and anguish heaped on supportive families is as devastating as the monetary exhaustion. Then there is the endless grief and self-incrimination — “if only I had NOT done ABC” or “if only I HAD done XYX.”