In 1950 or 60, there were state mental facilities and people were put in them. Then, there was the discovery that some of them were horrible. So, the answer was not to improve them, but shut them down. Local governments were supposed to step in and communities were supposed to take care of their own. It didn’t happen much, especially because homeless people drift over to where they get a better deal, so a city could just do nothing and save money, or do a lot and get a whole lot of extra people as a “reward”.
The thing that kills me is that each of these people was somebody’s baby boy at some point...........why does the world have to be such a pile of crap
There was some court case that set them all free.