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    Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer Aug 12

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    Homelessness got going in the late 1970s in NYC. I recall a movie review in New York Mag c. 1977 of "Annie Hall" that referred to Diane Keaton dressing in "bag lady" fashions. Being in Houston at the time, I had to ask around to figure out what they meant by "bag lady."https://twitter.com/angrystan/status/1028772916970831872 …

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    Stan @angrystan
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    Under Reagan, nationwide, it started. We had to coin the word "homeless" to describe this new phenomenon obvious to the populace.
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      1. William Laing‏ @William_Laing Aug 12
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Worldwide trend in psychiatry for deinstitutionalisation, not Reagan, to blame here.

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      1. Keith Levenberg‏ @KeithLevenberg Aug 12
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        I dunno when they started keeping stats on homelessness, but the words "hobo" and "drifter" from prior eras seem to describe the same idea, except jumping box cars is good for folk music and sleeping on benches not so much.

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      1. Karen Santal‏ @KSantal Aug 12
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        They were always there. In the 1960s I was sitting on a bench by the UN eating my sandwich. A bag lady wearing a Pan Am bowler hat threw a liquid at me from a soda bottle or can. Hopefully soda. Never felt much sympathy for them. They pissed in the phone booths back then.

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      1. KeyWestCuervo‏ @KeyWestCuervo Aug 12
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        Merriam-Webster says 1972 first usage of bag lady...

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      1. epobirs‏ @epobirs Aug 13
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        That's because places likes Houston would put them on a bus to CA and make them somebody else's problem.

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      1. Laura Rosen Cohen‏ @LauraRosenCohen Aug 13
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Thomas Sowell talks a lot about this-when "bums" became "homeless" and "swamps" became protected "wetlands". Whoever owns the language owns the argument and the policy resultant.

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      1. Beau Sauvage‏ @SauvageBeau Aug 12
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        Reagan admin returned responsibility to cities so they could more cost- effectively care for their winos and schizos. Liberalism at city level failed the needy as liberals victim ideology allows no theoretical model that includes sanction- the sine qua non of moral seriousness

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      1. The Hand and Foot‏ @VeryJonesVery Aug 12
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        Before 60s reforms we had mental institutions and skid row, and we liked it.

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      1. Gerald Hasty‏ @GeraldcHasty Aug 12
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        50 years later they're still blaming Reagan. Of course there's never been a move to reinstitutionalize anyone. Only subsidize and therefore encourage vagrancy.

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      2. Gary Royal‏ @6r0y4l Aug 12
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        The nature of homelessness was different at that time. SRO (Single-Room Occupancy apartments, e.g. men's hotels) were plentiful, and so were daily-pay labor pools (the forerunners of today's temp agencies). Homelessness was mainly an alcoholic/mentally ill phenomenon.

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      3. Gary Royal‏ @6r0y4l Aug 12
        Replying to @6r0y4l @Steve_Sailer

        Then in the 80s, the asylums were emptied onto the streets, deindustrialization shifted labor pools to skilled occupations, the SROs were rehabbed into tony studio apartments, new drugs (i.e. crack) became widespread, and entire families began living in cars.

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