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Gina Ellison opened her boarding home after caring for her husband until he died of colon cancer. His parents died when he was little, so it fell to his older sister to repeatedly bail him out of jail when his schizophrenia put him on the wrong side of the law. Hurricane Katrina brought Marshall, a high school dropout, to San Antonio in He lived in a shelter for a time, and then moved in with his sister and a niece after they found a small apartment.

One day they'll be all right, the next day they'll put me out. I just can't deal with that. Like many residents of boarding homes in San Antonio, Marshall, 41, has struggled to find a place to live where his mental illness doesn't put him at constant odds with landlords and even family members who love him.

In a previous local boarding home, he got into a fight with the operator's husband, a physical altercation that landed him in Bexar County Jail. A jail counselor called James Johnson , who runs the boarding home where Marshall now lives, a sprawling, aging complex near the medical center that houses some 20 men, most of whom have serious mental illnesses.

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Boarding homes, which provide basic services such as meals and transportation to three or more elderly or physically or mentally disabled residents, often are the last housing option for people who have no place else to live.

Johnson, who has been in the boarding home business for nine years, said people with mental illness often exhibit behaviors that simply are too challenging for most families to handle.

According to one national study, one-half to two-thirds of people with schizophrenia live with their families or have parents as primary caregivers. Only 3 percent of those families deem it a suitable arrangement, the study found. During the day, Marshall watches TV and plays board games at a day-care program run by his landlord. In some ways, he is a fortunate man. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, about , people with schizophrenia — or one in five — are homeless in any given year.

Nationwide, about , people with mental illness reside in jails or prisons, which have become the de facto treatment and housing program for those with such disabilities, given the scarcity of other options.

More than 38, adults with mental illnesses are incarcerated annually in prisons in Texas, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness—Texas.

In Texas, a funding system provides money for residential treatment for those with intellectual disabilities, such as autism, but little to none for those who suffer from serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

In the s, about , mentally ill people lived in long-term custodial care, such as state hospitals; today, the number is around 40,, according to the CDC. Thank you for helping my family. We appreciate the patience and all the hard work. Thank you for our home.

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