There is next to no funding in the US for public mental health. We no longer have aslyums, because those were awful infringements on people&#x27;s rights, regardless of whether or not they&#x27;re sane. But we never replaced those centralized mental institutions with the community psych care that was necessary to make up for the gap. So now many of those same people live on the streets and&#x2F;or in and out of jail and hospitals because of a lack of long-term support.