Officially Homeless

Be careful! I worked in a state mental hospital while attending college in the 1970s. There were three major institutions in Suffolk County, NY at that time, housing probably over 30,000 patients total. De-institutionalization released them to "community" residences and they had to attend local MH clinics for their daily medications. Most simply evaporated into society and heading toward the cities. Most became victims of predator humans in one way or another, many ended up in jails for various crimes, but most were harmless to others. However, there were some that you had to keep your eyes on because they could become violent in a second.