>>17982782
That is exactly why.
Capitalism prioritized GDP over the looming mental health crisis of the country and listened to the police and prison unions demands to keep locking retards up and controlling the areas that they shit up once they're released instead of finding a solution. Reagan closed asylums at the federal level. Very few states have asylums and those that do keep these hospitals to incarcerate murderers that are deemed criminally insane only. They aren't used to lock up a rabid animal riding the bus with a knife. A republican federal judge was responsible for deeming government interventions to aid mentally ill people as being "unconstitutional" (O'Connor v. Donaldson) so yes, capitalism is why this happened.
This
>>17982784 is unironically the state model to get people in contemporary capitalist countries to not question the system. It's no coincidence that all the new houses getting built in contemporary capitalist countries are basically Deluxe Renting (HOAs). They know that people will always prefer to be in a bigger cuckshed than be around homeless psychos.
>>17982820
Your "government" did not fix a problem. They simply flung the turd over the fence. The problem is gonna pop up again very soon as more people get released.
>>17982824
>That's why homelessness is like less than 1% of the population
They are literally everywhere and they never "go away" you literal retard. Still haven't learned object permanence? Even 1,000 of them in a geographic area is a catastrophe.