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Lack of affordable housing certainly seems like a contributing factor. Drug addiction and mental illness complicates the problem though. Virtually no one will rent to, or rent to for long, someone living that life without treatment.
But the question is “WHY is there a homeless epidemic?”
Oh, sorry.
Everyone on the west coast would be inclined to say, “it’s a complicated issue” and then continue to do virtually nothing.
Seems to me like the usual suspects. Financial hardship, drug abuse, and mental illness. All intertwined.
Lack of housing supply resulting from zoning laws that are far too strict.
Lack of affordable housing certainly seems like a contributing factor. Drug addiction and mental illness complicates the problem though. Virtually no one will rent to, or rent to for long, someone living that life without treatment.