I was living in New York City in 1981. The homeless population exploded overnight. There were homeless camps all over. They lasted until well into Clinton’s first term.
That’s also more than just Reaganomics. That’s around when the deinstitutionalization push started. Reagan capitalized on the left’s push to close institutions and he did so without funding any replacement services in the community.
Don’t try to blame ‘the left’ for any of this. Reagan did the same thing when he was California governor and had exactly the same results.
Homelessness is great for the Right. Means that there’s a need for more police and jails.
When did I blame the left? I said Reagan bastardized the left’s campaign fordeinstitutionalization under the guise of supporting them.
Don’t worry, I read your comment as you intended it.
Yea but Geraldo did the thing and eventually a lot of well meaning concern got co-opted so that republicans could rat-fuck the system.
This happened in 1972.
Reagan was Governor of California and closed down mental health facilities back in 1967.
Read the whole thing and holy shit this is scary and maddening.
Hartmann is great. I’d recommend him more if he didn’t work with RT for a long time, which always made me skeptical of him. He’s still super smart and a great talk show host though
Hey, guess what? We’re fucked. This article is a solid (and depressing) read. Seeing the protections other countries have in place at the end just made me even more despondent. There’s no way we’ll get that here.
