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80% of the chronically homeless have life long mental health issues, and 60% of the chronically homeless have drug addictions.

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Mental health issues caused them to be homeless. People with severe Bipolar, borderline, or schizoeffective disorders can’t function in society without being heavily medicated, and a choice was made to not take that medication (I don’t blame them. Anitsychotics have super shitty side effects).

Sure, homelessness might make it worse, but their illness is what led to the homelessness.

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What percentage of people with lifelong mental health issues are homeless? What percentage of the housed population has lifelong mental health issues? Should we lock up the ones with houses in asylums too?

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Neither of those statistics are relevant to the discussion.

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Neither are the ones you posted.

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And a near-0% of them will ever make progress on that without a home. All of that is downstream from having safe and secure housing.

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