Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart

Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by lordnacho on Thursday July 21, 2016 @04:41PM (#12139891)

I was there a couple of times last year. Mostly seemed like any other large city, except it's too low-rise to make sense. Actually not a pretty place, a lot of boring buildings. (Landmarks are different.)

The thing that really stood out to me, however, was that there seems to be a lack of psychiatric care. Almost every day I was there I would run into some guy who was having an argument with an imaginary person. Often a very aggressive argument. Cops even came by once. Not something I often see in Europe, and I've lived in 5 cities in 3 countries now.

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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by brixon on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:00PM (#12140035)

The US does not handle it's population of people with mental illness very well. A large percentage of the US homeless population have mental illness and cities with good weather have a much higher number of homeless people.

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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by vacri on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:57PM (#12140393)

SF has a lot of homeless people because it has relatively good services for the homeless compared to other places in the US, and the weather is tolerable. If you're mentally ill and homeless, SF is a better option than most.

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