There’s two types of homeless people. Temporary or chronically. The percentage of chronically homeless who are drug addicts, severely mentally ill, or both (self medication) is around 60-80 (this can vary largely by area).
That’s not to say that drug addicts and severely mentally ill people don’t need help, but it’s like people want to pretend that they don’t exist because they make addressing the homeless issue way more complicated, because at a certain point you have to talk about involuntarily committing people to mental asylums.
his post is factually incorrect, of course.
https://adcare.com/addiction-demographics/homeless-population/
“homeless” is a term used to describe someone who does not live inside a domicile, 40-60% of all homeless people have and hold down jobs.
There’s two types of homeless people. Temporary or chronically. The percentage of chronically homeless who are drug addicts, severely mentally ill, or both (self medication) is around 60-80 (this can vary largely by area).
That’s not to say that drug addicts and severely mentally ill people don’t need help, but it’s like people want to pretend that they don’t exist because they make addressing the homeless issue way more complicated, because at a certain point you have to talk about involuntarily committing people to mental asylums.