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It is not simply a matter of providing homes. Most of the street people in San Francisco have serious mental illness and drug addiction problems. They cannot t
by sankyo 10y ago
It is not simply a matter of providing homes. Most of the street people in San Francisco have serious mental illness and drug addiction problems. They cannot take care of themselves. Giving those people a home will not solve their problems.
- woot01 10y agoExcept it's really hard to provide treatment for those illnesses if you can't find them regularly, so giving them a home, first, and then bringing services to that home is the only policy that makes sense. Seems to be working in Utah.
- LesZedCB 10y agoYeah, I know, I just want to make sure that our homeless problem is not linked to a scarcity of resources. I am very familiar with the links between mental illness and homelessness as well as lgbtq+ youth and homelessness.