>>Money for low-income housing and social service programs has dwindled for decades. This is not true. Money for low-income housing and social services has mas

>>Money for low-income housing and social service programs has dwindled for decades. This is not true. Money for low-income housing and social services has massively increased over the last 40 years. The problem is, this approach is not working. The state psychiatric hospitals were closed because of the deinstitutionalization movement which was strongly supported by advocates of the mentally ill. Now they don't want to acknowledge the consequences of that advocacy, and keep blaming the phantom menace of austerity and social spending cuts.