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    1. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo 9 Oct 2019

      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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    2. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo 9 Oct 2019

      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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    3. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo 9 Oct 2019

      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. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo 9 Oct 2019

      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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    5. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo 9 Oct 2019

      I'm hoping @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."

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    6. Walter Kirn‏ @walterkirn 12 Oct 2019
      Replying to @realchrisrufo @seattletimes and

      I learned during a poker game in the early 1990s with a NYC official who dealt with homelessness that it’s not *all* about housing. It’s about helping people become able to live and manage in housing, too. And that means addressing many factors.

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      Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo 12 Oct 2019
      Replying to @walterkirn @seattletimes and

      Exactly. The new mantra is "housing first." But the real question is, after you get people into housing, how to help them deal with those human issues.

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        2. Walter Kirn‏ @walterkirn 12 Oct 2019
          Replying to @realchrisrufo @seattletimes and

          I lived in Santa Monica last winter. A middling part of a rich, rich city. What an absolute disgrace to step over people overdosing and hallucinating on your way to wherever and then not question the system that allows this, ignores it, even profits from it

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        3. Walter Kirn‏ @walterkirn 12 Oct 2019
          Replying to @walterkirn @realchrisrufo and

          Addiction is a huge part of it. But so are the new drugs, some of which are so incapacitating people aren’t even addicts yet. They’re just crippled by the stuff.

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