The coming homeless die-off

[Cleita]

7. Don't know where you lived, but where I lived the state hospitals took care of the

mentally ill and the VA the old vets who couldn't look after themselves up until 1980. That's when the effects Jarvis amendment ended all the programs that helped the mentally dysfunctional kicked in so they were thrown out into the street and in a matter of months the VA closed it's old soldiers' homes. Also, there was plenty of work before then and minimum wage was enough to pay rent so you didn't have the working homeless. All that changed when Reagan became President. However, he had done a lot of damage before as Governor of California and it was about then that the effects of the Jarvis Amendment of which he was a part of started to be felt. It was the effects of the Jarvis amendment that also caused a real estate boom for the wealthy of course and made housing way too expensive for minimum wage workers. The Jarvis amendment had a domino effect and state after state adopted versions of it so that's why you see the nationwide homelessness and poverty you see today.