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Cake day: March 20th, 2025

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  • 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.


  • And heroin, and severe mental illness.

    People forget that not every homeless person is just someone temporarily down on their luck. Iirc that $20b figure is just housing the homeless, which doesn’t fix things for people who are mentally ill, drug addicts, or both, and that’s like 60-80% of the chronically homeless.

    It’s a massively complex issue with no simple fix.