 Paget says one of the biggest myths is that most homeless people are mentally ill, turned out onto the streets by deinstitutionalization. However, Paget says that the proportion of mentally ill homeless people isn't that big, nor does deinstitutionalization fit into the timeline of when homelessness exploded. Given that persons who were severely psychotic on the street were so visible and got so much of the public attention, there was this natural tendency to say, well, we closed the hospitals, therefore...