And the left's record was consistently and constantly against institutionalization in the '70s. Then given the budget constraints and lack of funds earmarked for social programs, de-institutionalization began to appeal to the right in the '80s, a lethal combination which just left the mentally ill homeless and indigent rather than free and productive as originally envisioned by the pie-in-the-sky activists of yore. Plenty of blame to go around.
The naivete of the left in thinking one should de-institutionalize schizophrenia and other maladies mixed with a lack of desire on the right to spend the money necessary to keeping the indigent housed, clothed, and fed has led to the tent cities in LA, which sprawl everywhere and have just commandeered blocks upon blocks of otherwise valuable and decent property, forcing residents to step lightly in the very place they live and pay rent, lest they step in fecal matter or syringes.