[jdavis703]

If you check page 28 it shows the overall rate at 42% for substance abuse, 39% for mental health and 37% for PTSD. Your summary is from only the chronically homeless. That skews the data towards the people who are by definition the hardest to help.

[s1artibartfast]

Correct, This was my explicit intent. I posit that the chronically homeless are more disruptive, destructive, and harder to treat.

>Doesn't this just reinforce the point of the parent post, that there are two types of homelessness?

>They are explicitly separating the worst cases from those like the working mother in the RV?

>Looking at the 2019 report[1], the chronically homeless better fit the negative stereotype.