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Sorry, but this is idealistic hogwash. Giving people homes does not solve debilitating mental illnesses like schizophrenia, nor does it solve drug addiction.
Housing should be universal, but rehabilitation of some sort is needed for a large plurality of homeless people and just throwing them into an apartment does not heal social ills.
Throwing homeless people into asylums doesn't solve homelessness unless you intend to keep them there forever. Mental illness is over represented in homeless populations but correlation is not causation. Homelessness is not a mental illness.
Using due process to put people (housed or not) with serious mental illnesses into a dedicated care facility is fine. Suggesting that all homeless belong in there as a matter of policy is just an excuse to sweep them out of sight without solving any underlying issues by just assuming that the underlying issues are all mental illness.
That's my point. My desire is a system where the homeless are assisted in transition back to normal life, including rehab if they're suffering from addiction.
I don't believe all the ills of the homeless are tied to mental illness.
Then I'm not really sure what your point has to do with mine. What you're describing is not what Regan destroyed through deinstitutionalization, and I wouldn't really call a system like that a "mental institution".