Columnist: Lack of Housing Assistance "Crazy"

John Young, whose column appears regularly in the Hamilton Journal-News, writes:

"What we do, or don’t do, for severely mentally ill individuals is a scandal. One of the rarely discussed scandals is the lack of housing assistance."

"When it comes to housing the mentally ill, most policymakers don’t get it. They don’t see that permanent housing, with support, for the mentally ill is cost-effective. It helps people recover. It reduces demands on jails and mental hospitals.

"You’ve heard the old definition of insanity — doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. That’s what we do when mentally ill people go from jail, to the mental hospital, and back to the street. Yeah, that’s crazy."

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