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In reply to the discussion: Those who stigmatize mental illness are harming my family, they can all fuck off. [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Reagan closed all the halfway houses that the mentally ill lived in.....which created a big chunk of our homeless problem. Reagan used subterfuge to end care for the mentally ill to take tax money away from the cost of their care....thus forcing many onto the streets...and it has remained that way until now. Many many many mentally ill are being housed now in prisons....part and parcel because of Ronald Reagan!
Before Reagan major cities had many many of these facilities....some were completely locked inside of homes with high fences because they were considered more dangerous to themselves and others. While others were allowed to freely roam around the neighborhoods....they were called to meals by bells ringing...but otherwise they just stayed in neighboring parks during the day...
Still others had jobs but lived in halfway houses because they needed to prove they were ready to reenter society....or they just needed to have their meds monitored...etc.