[gamblor956]

There are two very different types of homeless. The invisible homeless are the ones who are homeless for economic reasons; they live in RVs, cars, or shelters and generally try to hide their homelessness. They rarely use drugs or alcohol.

The visible homeless are heavy drug users. In LA, over 90% of the visible homeless are drug addicts. The same is true in San Diego and the SF Bay Area. In LA, LAHSA likes to goose the statistics to to include the economic homeless, but the economic homeless don't use LAHSA's services because LAHSA exclusively services the drug users (because their funding is based on long term placements, which the economic homeless do not need).