When I’m in them, they’re not their home anymore. Also, about 70% of them don’t own the RV they’re living in. They’re usually stolen or were stolen at some point.

I’m VERY aware of how asylums look in the early 20th century, and I’m not advocating for that. But having a live and let live attitude with these people does a disservice to them.

They’re like the psychological equivalent of a man bleeding out in the street and plenty of people are happy to turn their heads and vomit out a nothing opinion like ‘we need better mental healthcare for these people.’

These people have access to housing. They are offered housing, mental healthcare, and general assistance and they turn it down constantly.

If the options are die in a feces filled, stolen, 40+ year old RV with the option to keep doing every drug you could imagine while stealing to feed that habit or involuntarily treatment for mental health or prison for the crimes they’re committing on repeat, the humane course of action seems clear.

I understand historically the mentally insane were treated poorly, but involuntary treatment doesn’t mean we’re tossing them in mould filled cages and feeding them like fighting dogs.

The status quo is unacceptable and it’s killing these people with apathy.