_WHAT’S HAPPENING_
In 1975, the Supreme Court ruled that individuals cannot be institutionalized against their will if they are not “posing a danger to self or others and is capable of living without state supervision.”
This, plus a series of federal government decisions in the 1980s, led to a mass deinstitutionalization in American society. Mentally unwell individuals went to the only place they could: America’s streets.
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing federal agencies to reverse this trend by strategically wielding federal grants and funding.
_THE FACTS_
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