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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My best friend growing up is homeless, based on multiple mutual friends seeing her panhandling in Crystal City.  She was a genius in school - all As at a DC private (where we met) and she was an extremely talented musician.  She was in the middle of grad school when I think she had a full mental break; schizophrenia runs in her family and I saw glimmers of it in her here and there. So yeah, mental health troubles are a precursor to homelessness.

She was the only child of an older mother (father died when she was a kid) who I imagine has passed on as well. No other family to speak of. We are in our thirties. What is society to do?[/quote]

I think bringing back institutions and making involuntary commitment easier, as CA has recently done, is the only humane answer re: both the individual and public order and safety. What we have been doing has been a disaster. Dismantle all the advocacy orgs that push Housing First and urge people to stay on the street and expand St. Es with better oversight. [/quote]

I used to work in an institution, preparing patients for placement in group homes, because the law required us to move them out of the institution asap. Because they were schizophrenics who couldn’t handle that setting, they would invariably become homeless, would get in trouble, police would be called, and they would end up in our institution again. Several patients would deliberately get in trouble just to return, because they felt safer in the institution.[/quote]

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