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by card_zero 578 days ago
> Most of these people have debilitating mental illnesses and/or drug addictions.

Do they, or don't they? If that's true, the article was misleading.

I mean that's the standard trope, sure, and it makes homelessness into an intractable problem about needing hordes of social workers and clinics, but there's a lot of implication here that these particular homeless are mostly people who can't afford the available rents.