"We need to provide safe places for these people"

We need to provide a safe place for everyone. The place we all live in and work in and relax in. That sounds like some impossible dream? It's not, it's how things really can be, and for enormous numbers of people round the world it's more or less how things actually are. I'm sure that applies in a lot of places inside the USA as well as outside it.

And don't believe anyone who suggests the old institutions - the asylums, the sub-normality hospitals and all that, were "safe places". The crime was that all too often the money saved by shutting them down wasn't used to provide proper help outside the institutions, it was stolen to give tax cuts to people who didn't need tax cuts.