I get the idea it's just the optics are so bad here it's almost hilarious. I used to work in the mental health field way back and was just catching the tail end of the deinstitutionalization movement. Before that the vast majority of homeless people were unfortunates, afterwards the ranks swelled with the mentally ill. Combined with the meth and opioid...I hate to use the overworked term epidemics but they also had a very noticeable effect on the homeless population.
"Solving" the homeless issue is very hard. A good portion of these people would be served with administrative help and shelter, like here. But the vast majority are going to take a lot more work, a lot more than society seems to be willing to do.
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