“The success of the anti-psychiatry movement’s ‘deinstitutionalization’ campaign (done in partnership with Ronald Reagan who, in a classic ‘politics makes strange bedfellows’ moment, was as always happy to cut government funding of a social service) led to the shuttering of most [institutional care]. This loss of institutional support for mental health in no small measure explains the epidemic of homelessness among the mentally ill in the United States today.”
https://nilsgilman.substack.com/p/dissident-consciousness