You are so very right. Texas closed down the state hospital (where a friend worked) and they literally put everyone out onto the streets. It was so crazy.
I get why people were outraged. Some of those facilities were utter horror shows. But the response was throw the Baby out with the Bathwater. At the behest of Activists whose only goal really was shutdown the Asylums. And make getting forcibly committed harder.
With the only real plan of what happened afterward being some vague outlines of “Community Focused” treatment. That ultimately never materialized in any meaningful fashion.
Yes, it was crazy just to shut them down without a clear plan for how to take care of the people that would be on the streets. In Austin there is a literal city of homeless people living under the overpasses with no plan to help them at all.
You are so very right. Texas closed down the state hospital (where a friend worked) and they literally put everyone out onto the streets. It was so crazy.
I get why people were outraged. Some of those facilities were utter horror shows. But the response was throw the Baby out with the Bathwater. At the behest of Activists whose only goal really was shutdown the Asylums. And make getting forcibly committed harder.
With the only real plan of what happened afterward being some vague outlines of “Community Focused” treatment. That ultimately never materialized in any meaningful fashion.
Yes, it was crazy just to shut them down without a clear plan for how to take care of the people that would be on the streets. In Austin there is a literal city of homeless people living under the overpasses with no plan to help them at all.