Yeah, totally Reagan's fault - not at all the fault of the ACLU which fought relentlessly to stop the forced institutionalization of the criminally insane so that they were legally entitled to roam the streets free as birds. Read up on some history, you are horribly uninformed / misinformed.
I actually am very informed on the history of it. You must not remember Gov. Reagan signing Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967 when four of California's 10+ state institutions shut down immediately with several more closing in the coming decades. He also killed off state institutions when he became president through the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, where Reagan gutted the funding that President Carter committed to state institutions. Im sure ACLU and patients' rights activist played a role, but there's a lot more political reasons for it.
The genesis of the homelessness problem is that the state's authority to forcibly confine people against their will absent a criminal conviction ended as a result of ACLU lawsuits. The changes began with Kennedy who signed the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act in 1963, LBJ followed that in 1965 by signing legislation that moved federal funding from states such that state run institutions were forced to close for financial reasons, 1962 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' was published, so the California legislation you cite was not the cause of anything, it was a result of the feds under democrat regimes cutting off funding to the states, which in turn was a result of public outrage at the practice of lifetime institutionalization. Reagan responded to changes in the law, federal policies and public sentiment, he did not cause those things.
Yeah, totally Reagan's fault - not at all the fault of the ACLU which fought relentlessly to stop the forced institutionalization of the criminally insane so that they were legally entitled to roam the streets free as birds. Read up on some history, you are horribly uninformed / misinformed.
I actually am very informed on the history of it. You must not remember Gov. Reagan signing Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967 when four of California's 10+ state institutions shut down immediately with several more closing in the coming decades. He also killed off state institutions when he became president through the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, where Reagan gutted the funding that President Carter committed to state institutions. Im sure ACLU and patients' rights activist played a role, but there's a lot more political reasons for it.
The genesis of the homelessness problem is that the state's authority to forcibly confine people against their will absent a criminal conviction ended as a result of ACLU lawsuits. The changes began with Kennedy who signed the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act in 1963, LBJ followed that in 1965 by signing legislation that moved federal funding from states such that state run institutions were forced to close for financial reasons, 1962 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' was published, so the California legislation you cite was not the cause of anything, it was a result of the feds under democrat regimes cutting off funding to the states, which in turn was a result of public outrage at the practice of lifetime institutionalization. Reagan responded to changes in the law, federal policies and public sentiment, he did not cause those things.