CNN This Is Life With Lisa Ling June 4, 2024 06:20:00
Any local mental health services. the asylums closed, and people had nowhere to go. >> so would you say what we're experiencing is a direct result of that failure going back to the 1970s when deinstitutionalization happened? >> absolutely. we tore down what were considered to be horrible state hospitals with the goal of building up community, but we never created the platforms for them to do it. >> and today in los angeles, by latest count, some 16,000 severely mentally ill people are living on the streets. people just like kelly's brother, max, who's been homeless on and off for 20 years with...
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