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[devoutsalsa]

Are you aware of this?

Reagan’s Legacy: Homelessness in America

https://shelterforce.org/2004/05/01/reagans-legacy-homelessn...

[atdrummond → devoutsalsa]

Yes. States aren’t powerless to implement mental health requirements and programmes though. It is a cop-out to suggest that states and cities don’t use the full breadth of their legislative powers because the federal government made a bad policy decision over 4 decades ago.

[youreincorrect → devoutsalsa]

Reagan hasn't been governor of California or president of the US for a long time.

[ModernMech → youreincorrect]

That's why it's called a "legacy". It lingers after you've been gone.

[willcipriano → ModernMech]

Democrats must be remarkably ineffective to have someone that long ago still disrupting them after decades of unquestioned control.

[ModernMech → willcipriano]

Democrats are largely liberal capitalists. They don’t have solutions to this either.