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Why is it so hard to get mentally ill homeless people, living in the subway system, the treatment they need and deserve?
That question forms the core of Nolan Hicks’s unparalleled deep dive into the city’s $30-billion-a-year social safety net — a net so riven with holes that it can’t accomplish what everyone says is absolutely necessary: Getting a population of 1,000 or so people the care they need.
Read Hicks’s story, exclusively on Streetsblog today. It’s an eye-opener.