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There are now about 800,000 such patients in this nation's institutionsâ600,000 for mental illness and over 200,000 for mental retardation. Every year nearly 1,500,000 people receive treatment in institutions for the mentally ill and mentally retarded.
Each day, thousands of people with severe mental illness, such as those Stern encounters on his weekly outreach walks, wind up living on the streets of cities and towns across America. HUD's figure placing the homeless population at 610,000 is lower than other estimates, which range as high as 3.5 million.