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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Settle down folks. [b]Homelessness is an affordable housing problem, not a mental health problem.[/b] 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]

This is a load of crap. A mentally healthy person doesn’t unroll a sleeping bag or pitch a tent on Connecticut Ave because rent has gotten too high. They move somewhere else, whether it be with roommates or to a cheaper jurisdiction altogether.

They do not have the delusions (a sign of mental illness) that many homeless people around here have that lead them to think they’re entitled to like in the expensive downtown core of a major metro area.[/quote]

Yeah, why don't they go be homeless in the parts of the major metro area where poor people live, so I don't have to see them!

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Sincerely, many unhoused people are not capable of living independently and without incident in completely free housing. CM Cheh commented about this problem of providing unhoused people with housing without supports. It’s led to serious problems because people don’t really end up living on the streets for years if they don’t have other concurrent issues that make it difficult for them to stay housed even when it’s provided for free. [/quote]

That's because you aren't providing free food and drugs. And cleaning.[/quote]

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