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I honestly think many of those homeless people are suffering from quite serious mental illness. They are not on the streets by choice.
by gnosis 17y ago
I honestly think many of those homeless people are suffering from quite serious mental illness. They are not on the streets by choice.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoMy wife studied sociology. She tells me that there was a big push like in the 1970s to let a lot of crazy people out on the streets. It was deemed to be better to have them on the streets than in institutions. If that's true, I don't think it's worked out very well.
- gnosis 17y agoI think it was due to budget cuts to social services across the board. That included closing a lot of asylums.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoI've heard both that it was due to budget cuts and I've heard that it was due to well-meaning activists who were pushing for patient's rights. Honestly I never dug into it to figure out what really happened. Whatever happened, it's a sad state of affairs.