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by rsj_hn 3279 days ago
> In reality a minority of homeless people (~35%) have drug, alcohol, or metal problems.

Citation needed.

In reality, when people are complaining about homelessness, it's the chronic homeless, not temporarily homeless. 1/3 have drug problems and 2/3 have mental or physical disabilities. Those 1/3 and 2/3 pools don't perfectly overlap, so the amount of people who have neither drug nor disabilities is very small.

https://www.samhsa.gov/homelessness-housing