yourhavingalarf:
Sadly…Care in the community rapidly became ostracized by the community.
It was doomed right from the get-go.
What the heck were they thinking would happen? That poor, unemployable and often incapable homeless folks would somehow enter the workforce (so the government could get more tax out of them too maybe).
The asylums were not exactly paradise, but employed a lot of locals and provided a safe-haven (usually) they could call home.