No, it does not. I arrived here from London and spent the first month living in an apartment on 10th & Market. I could not believe what I was seeing.

There's a few homeless people in the cities of the UK, but they are relatively few. Never seen encampments, never encountered any crazy or anyone I thought would be a danger. I would frequently chat to the homeless I met, get them a coffee and a sandwich etc & have a natter.

I would guess that the main reason is that mental health care is available via the NHS which acts as a preventative measure against an instance of poor mental health precipitating total decline into loss of livelihood, housing etc. As another poster mentioned, the NHS is currently struggling and has been woefully underfunded by the Tory governments of the past decade, but it still pro