to quote you........"so now you can read people's minds?"
to act like you.........many means more then half........where are your statistics that more then half are mentally ill?
Avail yourself of a good dictionary, because "many" doesn't mean more than half. You're thinking of "most."
I don't need to read minds, I see homeless people in large numbers every day and I'm guided by experience.
You see there are three types of homeless people in SF:
- ordinary people who are down on their luck. These people tend to get help because there are many services in SF and they tend to leave the ranks of the homeless.
- drug addicts and drunks. Some of these people get help and stop being homeless, but many don't think spending money on anything other than drugs is a good idea. These people tend to come and then go because they have a habit of criminal behavior, including stealing from drug dealers, so it becomes unsafe for them, or they end up in jail.
- the mentally ill. This is largest group because they are hard and expensive to help and government can't/won't help them effectively. There are few options for these people.
Here in the Tenderloin, where Apple has set up shop, you have most of SFs homeless population, due to "warehousing."
If you've actually walk around, it becomes pretty obvious who is mentally ill and not because most non-mentally ill because of their extremely unusual behavior, and you quickly see how many there are.
