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> Mental instability is self-medicated with drugs.

I'm guessing you've never seen directly or by proxy what happens when someone ends up in jail because they attacked a family member with a knife as a result of them going off their meds.

I didn't say mental illness, I said mental instability.

People with those sorts of mental instabilities find they have NO support structure because they're fundamentally unsafe to everyone but state actors.

https://www.hudexchange.info/sites/onecpd/assets/File/CoC-Sy...

It gets even worse for you when you start to realize the how many people aren't even counted because they're homeless for mere days due to being kicked out, unexpected circumstances, etc.

What you're thinking of are what's known as "chronically homeless" and your challenge is showing both that drug users are a significant portion of those who are homeless for under 100 days and that those who are not drug users are a significant portion of the chronically homeless.