The two big causes of homelessness are substance addiction and craziness. Semaglutide is the first medical intervention that can help to some extent with the desire part of addiction.
Electric brain stimulation is likely able to help with mood disorders. Maybe even OCD and schizophrenia. If nothing else, proper measurements (lots of good data) of both healthy brains and mentally ill brains should help. We've had almost none of that, with EEGs being rather pathetic.
Nobody is going to "solve" homelessness tomorrow or next year. Not the people who think they can just spend more money -- someone's money, not their own, not the people who think charity is the way forward, and not the people who think what is needed is cures.
We can do some almost immediately if we are willing to institutionalize more people but it's not a good or complete solution and we aren't willing to, anyway.
The real improvements are likely to eventually come from things like semaglutide (and more likely more research into the instincts that drive addiction, now that we finally have a molecule that can affect them) and things that both provide data (that we sorely need) and can provide interventions directly in the brain.
Still waiting on the promised $25,000 EV though. If Neuralink is anything like American EVs, psychiatric patients might as well move to China for treatment.
Musk's Neuralink is ironically likely to help on the psychiatric disorder side.
Just Send More Money™ is not likely to help (as you recognize). Neither is "compassion".
Electric brain stimulation is likely able to help with mood disorders. Maybe even OCD and schizophrenia. If nothing else, proper measurements (lots of good data) of both healthy brains and mentally ill brains should help. We've had almost none of that, with EEGs being rather pathetic.
Nobody is going to "solve" homelessness tomorrow or next year. Not the people who think they can just spend more money -- someone's money, not their own, not the people who think charity is the way forward, and not the people who think what is needed is cures.
We can do some almost immediately if we are willing to institutionalize more people but it's not a good or complete solution and we aren't willing to, anyway.
The real improvements are likely to eventually come from things like semaglutide (and more likely more research into the instincts that drive addiction, now that we finally have a molecule that can affect them) and things that both provide data (that we sorely need) and can provide interventions directly in the brain.