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I always wonder what the point of these comparisons is. Can you imagine cramming 8000 homeless people with hardcore drug addictions and untreated mental illness
by woah 5y ago
I always wonder what the point of these comparisons is. Can you imagine cramming 8000 homeless people with hardcore drug addictions and untreated mental illness in a vacant office tower?
- unixhero 5y agoIt would make for a hellofa janitor survival simulator game. Maybe as a story pack to SimTower.
- astrange 5y agoNote most of them aren't homeless because they did drugs, they're doing drugs because they're homeless because they lost their homes. Ain't nothing else to do.
- mycologos 5y agoI was curious about this claim. A 2004 study of ~500 homeless adults in Pennsylvania found that roughly 70% reported that they did not use more drugs after becoming homeless, though about 80% reported regularly using drugs [1]. But there are other studies that claim the opposite, for example this 1990 study of ~1400 homeless adults in California that finds "[p]revalences of alcohol abuse, illegal drug use, and psychiatric hospitalization when adults first became homeless were 15% to 33% lower than prevalences following homelessness". But it's hard to dig into the second result, because the paper is paywalled, like most of the papers about this topic. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448345/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448345/ [2] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.82.10.1394 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.82.10...