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"Until we rebuild the mental hospital facilities that were deliberately deconstructed since the 1960's," Did Reagan’s Crazy Mental Health Policies Cause Today’s Homelessness?. salon.com Sep 29, 2013 - With President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental .... The closing of our mental hospitals is, in my opinion, insanity itself. ...when I see people like this, my first thought is always the same: Why isn’t this man institutionalized? He certainly is not living a dignified life out here on the streets. When I ask my mental health colleagues about this, the one political figure that typically comes up is former President Ronald Reagan. It’s like an urban legend in our field. People say the reason so many people with mental illness are homeless or in jail—one-third of all homeless individuals and half of all people behind bars—is because of President Reagan. Really? What did he do? Let all of the mentally ill patients loose? Well, yes, that’s exactly what they say he did. Over 30 years ago, when Reagan was elected President in 1980, he discarded a law proposed by his predecessor that would have continued funding federal community mental health centers. This basically eliminated services for people struggling with mental illness. He made similar decisions while he was the governor of California, releasing more than half of the state’s mental hospital patients and passing a law that abolished involuntary hospitalization of people struggling with mental illness. This started a national trend of de-institutionalization. povertyinsights.org