The Last Time NYC Tried to Hospitalize the Homeless
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The Push to Involuntary Hospitalize People Really Wasn't Working Clinically
"I don't think there was ever one time where we didn't struggle with it," she says. "When people were symptomatic, you know, didn't really have a plan of how they were going to take care of themselves." The hospitalization took care of the person's immediate problem, but not their long-term housing needs or problems,. There was no housing program attached to the hospital. And there still isn't to this day".
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