Well, they break into my car enough I just leave it unlocked and stripped of anything valuable and I live in the Perry district. I also commute downtown in the morning and evening, to drop my wife off for work. It’s both less expensive than parking and I also don’t have to worry about her being accosted, which has happened enough that I drive her now.

I have my own mental issues, and I realize and am grateful to have a support network and not everyone has that.

That said, I don’t want more housing downtown for the mentally ill and/or homeless. What they need is actual help, and right now they can only chose to accept it. What we need as a society is mental hospitals again. Doing away with them was a bipartisan effort (right: money left: human rights) and made some sense at the time given the state of the hospitals (bad from both angles). But we can do better now, I’m a fiscal conservative and even I think money on mental health is well spent.

The fix is to actually house and treat the truly homeless. The libertarian in me thinks it’s up to the person, the human part of me still wants to help and protect those that can’t help themselves. What we need is true blue mental push, which probably won’t happen.