Cause of homelessness? Not drugs or mental illness, study says

Re:Cause of homelessness? Not drugs or mental illness, study... by stult on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @06:26PM (#32076511)

> Not drugs or mental illness, study says

Meanwhile, in the actual body of the article,

> Aldern, a data scientist and policy analyst in Seattle, and Colburn, an assistant professor of real estate at the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments, said they are not suggesting that mental illness, addictions and other issues are not contributing factors to homelessness.

Sometimes I wonder if newspaper editors actually bother to read the articles anymore

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Re:Cause of homelessness? Not drugs or mental illness, study... by bsder on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:10PM (#32076982)

The whole article gives zero evidence of the statement in the headline.

Even worse, it is directly contradicted by the studies from San Franscisco where something like 15% of the homeless have a traumatic brain injury.

So, better than 1 in 10 of the homeless in SF should be in a medical facilty for starters.

However, building and funding medical facilities is expensive. So, the electorate is willing to do anything except what the data actually tells them to do. So, let's build housing and then whine when it doesn't work so we can go back to ignoring the homeless.

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Re:Cause of homelessness? Not drugs or mental illness, study... by ugl on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:24AM (#32083980)

TBI hardly means you're supposed to be institutionalized. Just ask car accident victims, NFL linemen, boxers, veterans

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Re:Cause of homelessness? Not drugs or mental illness, study... by pxmpxm on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @08:39PM (#32077668)

I would posit the reason why you'll find few homeless in low population dense areas is the same why you'll find few starbucks there - not enough human activity to support them.

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