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This has been what I've seen personally volunteering at a homeless outreach. Mental illness seems to be the major factor.
by goshx 5y ago
This has been what I've seen personally volunteering at a homeless outreach. Mental illness seems to be the major factor.
- api 5y agoAFAIK the homeless problem exploded when the US shut down its institutional mental health system in the 1980s. The shutdown wasn't just to cut costs. Many institutions had terrible records that included abusive treatment of patients. But we pulled the plug on that system with no replacement, so major cities became open air psychiatric wards.
- AngryData 5y agoYeah the system was terrible at the time, what they did however is sort of like seeing a bad performing school and closing it down permanently and then just leaving people completely uneducated. And then people complaining about how many illiterate people we got running around.