 and say, you know, here you are on the street, you've made bad decisions, you're using drugs, or you had a health crisis, you couldn't work around, or, you know, these kinds of things. Padgett says one of the biggest myths is that most homeless people are mentally ill, turned out onto the streets by deinstitutionalization. However, Padgett says that the proportion of mentally ill homeless people isn't that big, nor does deinstitutionalization fit into the timeline of when homelessness exploded.