2/4 According to the LA Times analysis, 67% of the homeless population has either a substance abuse disorder or mental illness. For the unsheltered population, 75% suffer from addiction and 78% suffer from mental illness.
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1/4 For the past five years, progressive activists have been saying "homelessness is a housing problem." But thanks to some stellar reporting from the LA Times, we can now confirm that addiction and mental illness are the primary drivers of homelessness. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless-population-mental-illness-disability …
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3/4 This confirms what I've been reporting for the past two years and, shamefully, our own paper, the Seattle Times, has adamantly refused to address.
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4/4 If we want to truly reduce homelessness in our cities, we have to first understand the problem—addiction, mental illness, and the collapse of our social institutions that once held people together.
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@seattletimes,@timeshomeless, and@ViannaDavila will consider doing a similar analysis of the raw survey data in King County. It cuts against the entire narrative of the political and nonprofit class which has maintained that it's "all about housing."Show this thread
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Along time ago it was illegal to take drugs and you would be in jail... look at us now!
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housing codes were invented for a reason
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Correlation does not imply causation. And it doesn’t mean that housing isn’t part of the solution for homelessness.
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I watch a news that said sharp increases in rent is problem
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