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by kjkjadksj 214 days ago
I think this discounts the fact that many of the most visible homeless are mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs, and would struggle to regularly pay a rent bill even if it were $100 a month. There is a fundamental lack of social services but also a fundamental lack of an ability to compel these people to make use of social services should they be available.