“Many of those who are labeled “homeless” today are mentally ill would would have been institutionalized with 3 hots and cot before the ACLU forced states to put them on the streets. Now we have to endure dangerous mental cases on the streets until they commit a crime that merits incarceration...often murder. It’s a damn poor approach.”
Could have been worse. The original plan was to establish half-way houses in all residential neighborhoods to house the mentally ill in group homes. I know the effects of the ‘homeless’ on urban areas has been severe, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a ‘group-home’ housing 10 or 12 of these next door?