In article ,
 bh{at}cs.berkeley.edu (Brian Harvey) wrote:

>
> My brother, now retired, made a career of running centers for former psych
> patients, now released into the community.  He bought houses and rented them
> to clients, and placed them in jobs they were able to handle, and organized
> client-community activities including both group therapy and just picnics.
> /With support/ these mentally ill people /could/ live on the outside, and
> live interesting lives, way better than being warehoused in a hospital.
> 
> The point is, there's a middle ground between warehousing and dumping.  This
> is what your "misguided individuals" want, and it works. 
But it costs money.
> 
     And it always has, although this I think is often different from 
homeless mental ill. Most of the mentally ill that I have dealt with 
both as an in-patient RN and with the street teams are those who had the 
above services in place before they left the hospitals (mostly community 
and not state facilities) but did not make use of them.
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