Opinion: Modern 'asylums' would be a compassionate answer for mentally ill homeless people (via latimesopinion)
that of a total of 553,000 homeless persons in 2018, 140,000 suffer from serious mental illness — and of those, some 43,000 are street homeless, whether living in cars or encampments.
Even these large numbers do not mean that we need to expand state mental hospitals to treat that entire population. Some really do just need housing. Such housing can also be similar to modest residences once offered by single-room occupancy “hotels.” A small but clean room with a shared bathroom and kitchen could be what many would prefer. Others will be able to live in “supportive housing,” with on-site help and supervision to ensure that important medications are taken.
The old asylums in popular culture, depicted in movies like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “The Snake Pit,” were prisons where people were warehoused and forgotten. But not all asylums were hellholes, certainly not when many were first built in the first three decades of the 20th century. Those who believe that government can be an effective means for society to express compassion should not rule out the possibility that state mental hospitals can be safe, sanitary and clinically effective — and part of the tool kit for addressing the current epidemic of street homelessness.Howard Husock is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of “Who Killed Civil Society? The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms.
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