Would reopening mental institutions help with the homeless problem?

(We don’t have to call them mental institutions.)

I was reading an article on how different cities deal with their homeless people and most of it is focused on deterrents like putting metal spikes on the concrete (yeah, saw that) or making loitering illegal.

Since so many homeless people are mentally ill, wouldn’t diagnosing these people and getting them help and then letting them out with job skills, meds, outpatient assistance, etc. do a lot to help this problem? Of course, this won’t always work, but even a small success rate would change a lot of people’s lives and shrink the amount of homeless people.

How will we pay for it? Taxes of course. I’d rather see my taxes go to actually helping people than to the war machine or corporate welfare, or to fund Trump’s golf trips and protection for his wife who refuses to live in the White House.

Taxes could be collected at a state level, as well.

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