[SilasX]

That is extremely implausible. What fraction of them would be able to put together the $1000/month (in the scenario of extreme home buildout)?

It's only true in the trivial, unhelpful sense of "if we got housing costs down to $10/month or free, then all the people there could afford a place." But when we talk about housing costs in general and policy around it, we mean something like getting rents down from $3000/month to $1000/month (from vast expansion of building), not some artificial number that no amount of expansion would (scalably) get.

And I don't think you can really take one homeless person living at an encampment, making a self-serving statement, as a source.

[cucuuc]

Did you read the article?

Do you have grad school experience? An $1800 grad stipend will help you understand the difference a few hundred bucks make.

[SilasX]

I read the part of it that was cited as the definitive refutation of all evidence of mental illness driving homelessness and explained why a single self serving source isn’t good enough.

I understand the difference that a few hundred bucks makes to a grad student. I don’t think those are the same people that become homeless in significant numbers and that’s why I’m objecting to the narrative: the person that just needs housing prices a few hundred bucks less is not the person going homeless. Those are different problems.