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Reply to "absolutely absurd article on homeless encampment clearing on 17th st NW/Safeway"
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[quote=Anonymous]It is absolutely not "supportive" to allow these encampments. It is true that we have a shortage of mental health and drug treatment facilities, and more are needed. Mental health institutions were closed on a large scale in the 1970s by a combination of interest cost-cutting (generally from the right) and increasing hte "agency" of patients (generally from the left). It was not one or the other, but both. But to the extent that the treatment facilities are available, people unable or unwilling to care for themselves should be either involuntarily committed or told to move along. [/quote]
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