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by NPMaxwell
2351 days ago
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Summary of details 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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