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		treesrule on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing D... So I think your observations can be broadly true and also that if you caught the people who are chronically homeless as they were falling out of being homed they would seem way less insane and their problems would be far more tractable

JohnFen on July 13, 2023 [–]

Yes, I agree entirely.

Once a person is homeless, the disaster has already happened. Any problem is easier to solve before it has actually become a disaster.

And being homeless, all by itself, is very, very rough on a person's mental and emotional stability.

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