This is a particularly uncompassionate take, particularly with you lumping homelessness into this.
The vast majority of homeless are not homeless by choice. Homeless people turn down shelters because shelters aren't homes, and are often legitimately worse than being outside. Programs which have offered the homeless real homes, with privacy, the ability to safely store belongings and keep pets, and the ability to decorate, cook, and sleep in quiet, have not had any difficulty filling those homes, but these programs are few and far between (none exist in the US, that I know of).
The solution to homelessness is homes, period. Not shelters, homes. Nothing else will work. Mental health treatment is utterly ineffective when the patients are suffering the ongoing trauma of homelessness, and any system which places mental health as a prerequisite to having a home will not work.
As such, whatever forceful mental health treatment you're proposing as a solution to your fear of the homeless, is not going to actually solve your problem. If the homeless are removed from the streets and forcibly medicated, they'll end up in the same spot doing the same thing as soon as they're dumped back into the world without any real help.
If you actually want a solution that works, you're going to have to grow a little compassion and start trying to actually help the homeless instead of only thinking about how to keep yourself safe from the homeless.
The vast majority of homeless are not homeless by choice. Homeless people turn down shelters because shelters aren't homes, and are often legitimately worse than being outside. Programs which have offered the homeless real homes, with privacy, the ability to safely store belongings and keep pets, and the ability to decorate, cook, and sleep in quiet, have not had any difficulty filling those homes, but these programs are few and far between (none exist in the US, that I know of).
The solution to homelessness is homes, period. Not shelters, homes. Nothing else will work. Mental health treatment is utterly ineffective when the patients are suffering the ongoing trauma of homelessness, and any system which places mental health as a prerequisite to having a home will not work.
As such, whatever forceful mental health treatment you're proposing as a solution to your fear of the homeless, is not going to actually solve your problem. If the homeless are removed from the streets and forcibly medicated, they'll end up in the same spot doing the same thing as soon as they're dumped back into the world without any real help.
If you actually want a solution that works, you're going to have to grow a little compassion and start trying to actually help the homeless instead of only thinking about how to keep yourself safe from the homeless.