the hospitals were closed down. but when those people wound up in cities like new york there were sros, cheap housing plagueses. if you were discharged with a prescription bottle and one bottle of medicine to help you. itch y if you lost your apartment on the upper west side you could walk around the corner and find a cheap apartment. in the 70s and 80s when the co-legislation was founded the housing dried up. sros, lost 100,000 units. as a result snuff. what? condo, buildings. my first apartment was a former s sro. a woman, sunny was a distressed looking woman was standing in front of my building one day. one bright sunny day, this woman standing there, kind of, you know, clearly, with a thousand yard stare in her eye. i said may i help you. thought there was something wrong with her. she said i used to live in this