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Do you have statistics on homelessness before the mental institutions were closed down? Obviously we'd need to find a way to time-adjust them but I'd be curiou
by roundsquare 17y ago
Do you have statistics on homelessness before the mental institutions were closed down? Obviously we'd need to find a way to time-adjust them but I'd be curious to compare.
- halostatue 17y agoI don't; it's not something that I research personally. However, there appear to be links to interesting sources here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Stat... http://www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov/Channel/View.aspx?id=18 http://www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov/Channel/View.aspx?id=18 http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/ http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/ The general impression that I've obtained in my casual reading of this over the years is that (a) there have always been "indigents", but (b) the numbers have gone way up since the 1960s and (c) a disproportionate number of "indigents"/homeless have been those with mental illnesses.