Another lie.....or are you simply this stupid?????
It was Democrat JFK's plan
Carter continued it.
The plan was a failure....so Reagan turned it over to the states.
Newsom's insane proposal is simply an inept Liberal attempt to clean up the homelessness problem spearheaded by California.
It should be recalled that
Democrat John Kennedy was the cause.
....
in the address itself, Newsom does actually pinpoint when homelessness began to arise as an issue:
President Kennedy envisioned a system in which, in his words, “the reliance on the cold mercy of custodial isolation will be supplanted by the open warmth of community concern.”
State mental hospitals were closed. But the promise of community mental health was never fully realized.
The states were burdened with the responsibility but provided little in the way of support.
Laws were changed that made it harder to compel mental health treatment. Governor Ronald Reagan signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967, designed to end the inappropriate lifetime commitment of people with mental illness.
And critically, in 1975, a U.S. Supreme Court decision, O’Connor v. Donaldson, ruled that “mental illness alone cannot justify a state locking a person up against his will.”
State of Homelessness: Governor focuses entire State of the State on housing crisis
1963
President John F. Kennedy signs the
Community Mental Health Act to provide federal funding for the construction of community-based preventive care and treatment facilities. Between the Vietnam War and an economic crisis, the program was never adequately funded.
1980
President Jimmy Carter signs the
Mental Health Systems Act, which aims to restructure the community mental-health-center program and improve services for people with chronic mental illness.
1981
Under President Ronald Reagan, the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repeals Carter’s community health legislation and establishes block grants for the states, ending the federal government’s role in providing services to the mentally ill. Federal mental-health spending decreases by
30 percent.
TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences
“The purpose of the CMHA was to build mental health centers to provide for community-based care, as an alternative to institutionalization. At the centers, patients could be treated while working and living at home.
Only half of the proposed centers were ever built; none were fully funded, … Many patients, formerly warehoused in institutions, were released into the community. ….
homeless in large cities,
[6][7] but without the mental health care they needed.”
Community Mental Health Act - Wikipedia
Another custard pie in your ugly kisser, huh?
Ask nicely and I'll state why JFK closed the mental hospitals.
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