That one breaks my heart. I dearly love someone who cannot function in society. Taking safe harbor from people with that severe of mental illness is completely heartless and evil. 😭
It is beneath contempt. It is a devastating disgrace to our society that we care so little for our vulnerable. Instead we outlaw poverty and vilify the vulnerable. Sickening. Our SSD is at or below the poverty level.
I lived through this. aTC went on strike, that’s why he fired them.
The mental hospitals closing were in California for sure when he was governor. The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967 to restore rights to mental patients was bi-partisan. Horrifying. Prior to this, there were very few homeless.
He did close the mental hospitals in California when he was Governor. But it wasn’t until he became elected President that he was able to shut down the nations public mental health hospitals. That put severally mentally ill people on the streets. 1/2
Conservatives will readily admit to the closing of the hospitals in 1967, by Reagan. But they use that mostly in defense of when people say Reagan closed the mental health facilities and that led to the homeless crisis. 2/2
I lived in LA for 11 years from 1984 through 1995…. And population of unhoused people exploded! Now being in Skid Row or Santa Monica or the Tenderloin tears your heart out.
On mental hospitals, my understanding is that was an outcome of the Willowbrook scandal, which was especially abhorrent. Not that you couldn't create something in its place like day habilitation services or group homes.
The truly evil part of this MAGA/Project 2025 Plan is that the red states will happily use all incarcerated peoples (and in red states, they are mostly non-white) as labor, cheaply rented out to the farmers (good Republican men). In other words...slavery.
That is the truth and he has destroyed the UC system. It used to be very affordable. It no longer is. It’s now a huge, for profit business in California. Berkeley is looking like built up corporate shit these days because of that.
My first year at UC in the early 80s was $300 plus student services fees of $419. With some local fees it was around $1200. I had Pell Grant for $975 that covered most of it.
By the time I graduated it was nearly $4000. That was quite the jump in 5 years.
I don't know how most people are able to afford it. I would have had a hard time coming up with the money for CC. I love the initiatives to make CC accessible.
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See that’s quite a nice pkg wasn’t it
The mental hospitals closing were in California for sure when he was governor. The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967 to restore rights to mental patients was bi-partisan. Horrifying. Prior to this, there were very few homeless.
https://newuniversity.org/2023/02/13/ronald-reagans-legacy-the-rise-of-student-loan-debt-in-america/
By the time I graduated it was nearly $4000. That was quite the jump in 5 years.
Now it's somewhere around $15k.