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A comment on Biggest Myths about Homelessness in America.
66% of unhoused sleep in shelters, cars, or other protected sleeping sites. 33% sleep on the street.
84% are housed within a few weeks.
33% have a serious mental illness and would have been institutionalized before 1970's de-institutionalization.
About 30% have addictions.
In the world of homelessness, violence is usually perpetrated by the housed on the unhoused, not by unhoused.
About 75% grew up in the area where they currently are homeless.
There are more empty rental units than unhoused people.
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66% of unhoused sleep in shelters, cars, or other protected sleeping sites. 33% sleep on the street.
84% are housed within a few weeks.
33% have a serious mental illness and would have been institutionalized before 1970's de-institutionalization.
About 30% have addictions.
In the world of homelessness, violence is usually perpetrated by the housed on the unhoused, not by unhoused.
About 75% grew up in the area where they currently are homeless.
There are more empty rental units than unhoused people.