Re:Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong
by bombcar on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:18AM
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There’s a big crosstalk that happens because almost everyone is referring to the chronically homeless (or whatever the technical term is) whereas the vast majority are homeless for 6 months or less.
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Re:Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong
by Natsu on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:07AM
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Yeah and even here we hear stats like 33% have serious mental illness, 20-40% have drug issues, etc. I'd bet those figures are even more skewed if we look at the long term homeless populations.
But it's true, we really do have to get more housing and the biggest problems there are permitting, NIMBY issues and inflation driving up costs. Ideally we'd work on all significant contributors to homelessness at the same time, though.
Re:Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong
by Aloha on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:38AM
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I believe firmly they are two different cohorts, and if you stay homeless longer and longer, you start to homogenize into the other cohort and pick up there comorbidities of that cohort.