If you are really too young to know, and are asking a serious question...
Severely mentally ill folks used to be institutionalized to protect and treat them and to protect society. In the late 1960s, federal judges got the bright idea to turn them all out in the streets. Add to those numbers the folks that cooked their brains with drugs, and you have the present mess.
Is it really more compassionate to allow people who can’t take care of themselves to be in the streets? Instead of being in an institution? Sounds like liberal judges had their way. But are the results really better for the homeless or for society as a whole???
Or is it hateful and bigoted to even pose a question regarding how we deal.with homeless??? How many of these compassionate liberal judges would want the homeless to live in their backyard???