Homeless situation....
FWIW this is an old but I think still valid piece from PBS from 1995 about the effects of deinstitutionalization of mental health in the 60s-70s that I mentioned in an earlier post. Basically there are probably around 1 million people in the community today that would have been hospitalized on a more or less permanent basis 50 years ago. I think a large segment of that number make up the homeless population. Another large segment are in jail, which this piece describes in detail.
The law of unintended consequences is pretty much undefeated.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html
There are certainly a lot of working poor among the homeless (especially in places like SF where a 1 BR studio is $4000/month) but there are also a lot of mentally ill that are not going to get much more integrated into society even with a free apartment.
FWIW this is an old but I think still valid piece from PBS from 1995 about the effects of deinstitutionalization of mental health in the 60s-70s that I mentioned in an earlier post. Basically there are probably around 1 million people in the community today that would have been hospitalized on a more or less permanent basis 50 years ago. I think a large segment of that number make up the homeless population. Another large segment are in jail, which this piece describes in detail.
The law of unintended consequences is pretty much undefeated.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html
There are certainly a lot of working poor among the homeless (especially in places like SF where a 1 BR studio is $4000/month) but there are also a lot of mentally ill that are not going to get much more integrated into society even with a free apartment.