A Boring Dystopia

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Rising rents, not mental-health issues or addiction, are driving homelessness, advocates say (www.msn.com)

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[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s probably also a holdover from closing down asylums, with the added implication that mental health issues are both permanent and disruptive enough that attempts to house people is a losing battle so we need not try.

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Why pay to take care of mentally ill people when you can let them out, arrest and enslave them? -- Reagan probably