Carol Caton explains to Angela how funding to house mentally ill and homeless is a financial gain.... not drain! While it may appear that paying for supportive housing is a drain on the federal budget, research has shown that ending homelessness for the severely mentally ill actually saves tax payers dollars. 

Carol Caton is a professor of Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) at CUMC College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University,