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Reply to "Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?"
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[quote=Anonymous]Settle down folks. Homelessness is an affordable housing problem, not a mental health problem. It's true that a large minority of people experiencing homelessness have serious mental illness, but it's also true that being homeless is really bad for your physical and mental health, so it's very hard to tease out whether the homelessness caused the mental illness or vice versa. DC has plenty of money to house the homeless. It would save the federal government a ton of money because homeless people have huge medical costs just to get them stabilized before being discharged. Sending them out to the middle of nowhere is unworkable for a variety of reasons, but I can see how it would be attractive to people who want to get rid of this population for their own benefit.[/quote]
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