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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why is the rate of homelessness in the USA so high?
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In the 80s, President Reagan gutted the system of mental hospitals which had existed for decades to care for people not fit to live on their own and remanded their care to the states. Federal funding for state-run mental hospitals was inadequate, and as a result thousands of mentally ill people had nowhere else to go. The problem hasn't gotten better since then.