Hi Grasshopper-  always good to hear your chirps amid all the woofing.  On the Johnson unit, though, I have a different memory....  as I was working at Royal Avenue as a QMHP for Lane Shelter Care for a while  in the 1990s, I recall it was still in operation at Peace Health then.  I don't know if it is still active.
I do know that Royal Ave. was closed, a budget cut.  Those who speak so casually about community based  mental  health programs need to recognize how hard it is to create, staff, and fund them.  They should also understand what a really tough job mental health work  is, the emotional toll it takes in  seeing the suffering of people we care about but too often can't help.
A typical night at Royal  Ave. was  spent evaluating someone brought in by the police because they were behaving in ways dangerous to themselves or others, and the choice was either the Johnson Unit if it were truly serious, a few days at Royal, back on the streets, or the jail.  Bleak choices.