Thanks Gary, for your work and advocacy. 
In truth, we need ten times the low cost housing, and ten times the counseling that we have now. 
I found the help I needed by finding the Mission, and by spending years talking to counselors at the local Vet Center. I wish we had such community centers for all residents. 
Of course, I am one who hates the term "mental illness" as it promotes an illusion, that is a lot of illness, like the flu, in the community that needs to be healed. In truth, it is about learned traumatic dysfunction, and the way back is to support the lost and the homeless and the terrified, not with fake labels and very dangerous mind altering drugs, but with understanding and changing our culture.
Won't happen, but it makes me feel better to write that. America would rather millions lived in poverty and emotional distress and have low taxes, rather than raise taxes on the rich and have safety for the traumatically disabled.
Hugh Massengill Eugene Oregon