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Homelessness with Stephen Eide

Institutionalized

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Homelessness and the Mentally Ill

In the nineteenth century, there is this big effort to build custom design facilities firt seriously mentally ill individuals. This was a really big effer, expensive effort that american state governments undertook at the time where tax bases really did not have a lot going on. But they hired for their asylums like some of the top architects in the nation. That's who that these architects o we think of american government really selfish. In the late nineteenth early twentieth century, when you're dealing with troubled populations, an attics and people with mental disorders, ou want small facilities. Want to keep things at a certain scale. And that justtha, that was the original hope, but

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