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[quote=Anonymous]Bowser's Housing First program is turning the apartment buildings on Connecticut into private, unsupervised mental institutions.  Matt Frumin has tried to sponsor legislation allowing for landlords to cap the number of voucher tenants they have to accept--it has failed to gain traction with the rest of the Council.  A cap would be fair and reasonable, as well as allowing for a quicker eviction process for tenants who threaten or commit violence, as well as those who are completely uncooperative with building management (such as the example I heard today where a water pipe had burst in a unit and the tenant (paranoid) barricaded themselves in the unit and refused to allow maintenance admission to fix it.  The police had to be called.)  We need real supervised and staffed housing for the mentally ill provided by the city or specialized providers.  Mainstreaming the severely mentally ill (and often aggressive and anti-social) into market buildings is an abject failure of a policy.[/quote]

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