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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:33 AM Original message |
Was there homelessness before Reagan? |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. I saw the first homeless during Reagan |
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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Perhaps homeless families started under Reagan |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. "hobos" were thought of as a remnant of the 1930's |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
28. a lot of that has to do with changes in mental health |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. dupe |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:54 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. There was a minute amount of homelessness in big cities |
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cannabis_flower (386 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. I'm not sure... |
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Kraklen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
3. Not nearly as much. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
4. There have always been homeless but not in the numbers |
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Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
6. Some but a lot less |
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SlackJawedYokel (446 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
7. Not like after he cut budgets |
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patricia92243 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
8. During Reagan it became rampant. I had never really heard of Homelessness |
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mahina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
9. I'm not that old but I can tell you we didn't have people begging |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. Yes, of course, but Ronald Reagan showed just how..... |
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politicaholic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
13. Are you kidding me? |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Homeless |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. It wasn't insane, it was the way it was done... |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:45 PM Response to Reply #13 |
29. no, many people with mental illness or mental retardation |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
14. there were homeless on the streets |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
15. Housing costs enter into it too... |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
16. Ronald Reagan |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
17. "new homeless & old" |
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prodigal_green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
19. What homeless? |
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LandOLincoln (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
20. I was working in downtown Los Angeles in the early 80s |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
23. Actually, it started in California with the passing of |
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LandOLincoln (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:48 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. Well, Prop. 13 passed in 1978, didn't it? And it wasn't until mid-1981 |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 01:07 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. I tought I said that. |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
24. Here in San Francisco... |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
25. There was some homelessness, but it was almost entirely |
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rustydog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. There's always been homeless people! |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
27. Best to read up on it, I think. |
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Mairead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
30. No. I'm 65 this year, so I remember clearly a time when there was not. |
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geniph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
31. The de-institutionalization actually started under Carter |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:57 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Actually de-institutionalisation started in the 60's. |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
33. I remember reading about the appalling conditions in India. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
36. Reagan pulled the thread |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
37. In 1971, as the young wife of a Spanish professor, |
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Talismom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 02:45 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. LOL--check out what I say in 38 below! |
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Talismom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-22-05 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
38. Drunks in the Bowry--never families with children! |
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