Rather than ‘supportive housing,’ we need hospitals for the mentally ill

Does this sound familiar?
In 1766, 10 years before the Declaration of Independence, the royal governor of Virginia gave a speech about the “set of People who are deprived of their senses and wander about the Country terrifying the Rest of their fellow creatures.”
Gov. Francis Fauquier proposed something that was entirely new in North America: a public hospital for the confinement of the mentally ill. The Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds opened in Williamsbur