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To: coug who wrote (68728)	12/26/1999 1:59:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Thanks coug. I think those mental illness statistics are correct... we have some homeless guys outside my office and when we give them food (they are always begging) they rather violently toss it against the wall or in the trash. Of course they want money but with that they stay in their downward spiral. Seems like they need mental health treatment more than anything. I'd like to help but sometimes when I give them change I feel like I'm perpetuating their misery.

To: coug who wrote (68728)	12/26/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

The epidemiologists at UCSF are going to do research of SOME kind, Coug, because they study the spread of infectious diseases. The homeless community is a highly diseased group of people. It is a little scary riding the buses in San Francisco, since you can get TB from people coughing on you. But consider yourself lucky if you don't sit down where someone has urinated! I realize it might seem logical that this money be spent directly on the homeless, but these researchers are doctors, not builders of housing for the down and out. The homeless problem is so widespread that there is going to have to be some kind of massive state or federal assistance to create housing. Land in San Francisco is now so expensive that no local social agency can really afford to construct housing on their own. An interesting question is where the poor will go when there is no place at all for any of them in the City. But stopping statistical research on diseases and root causes of poverty and homelessness will not answer it.