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I found this article on the Free Press. Well written, thank you. I'd just add Shellenberger's point that "homeless" is really a euphemism for "drug addict" (co-morbid with mental health issues). Again and again in the media I see the lie that the "homeless" increase is solely due to a housing crunch. This is absurd. I don't know any normal adult that would say, "Well, since my rent went up 8% I decided I'll start doing drug cocktails of unknown origin that make me completely lose my mind, becom…
You should learn more about this topic before you post. Well it is true that most homeless people have substance abuse problems, most of them develop them when they are homeless. Not before. This simple fact which is readily available, makes the entire rest of your argument moot
Feel free to look at Shellenberger’s exhaustive research, or just join the field of mental health with me and see for yourself. If you want to challenge my claims, feel free to cite evidence, documentaries, personal experience, or anything else that would persuade someone of your position, like I’ve tried to do.
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Michael shellenberger has no relevant experience, and no peer-reviewed research whatsoever on this topic. A good discussion of his... Knowledge of the topic can be found here, making points similar to what I've made here, but unlike shellenberger, based on actual research done by relevant professionals in the field. A simple Google search for get you to that research. But if you need me to do that ground work for you, I'd be happy to do so.
“Shellenberger refuses to admit that mental illness is often caused by homelessness”, the article says.. You and this author clearly don’t work in mental health, understand the nature of the psyche, or know real people that suffer from substance use issues. I can only encourage you to go out on the street and talk to real people here in Portland where I live or in SF, for example. Your luxury beliefs won’t last long.
I actually work with homeless people in portland. What he says about that is actually true. Do you have some expertise in mental health that we don't know about? I haven't been to school for it, but when they trained me to work with the homeless in portland, they taught me the signs and taught me the pathologies.
A good, annotated place to start is here: google.com/url?source=w…
(That'll take you to a downloadable PDF or some similar) if you dislike the source of the document itself, please note all of the footnotes and external sources. If you would like me to track down URLs for those sources, please let me know.
You'll see that substance abuse is low on the list of proximate causes for homelessness.
Let me know if you can't get the homeless law link to work and I'll figure out some other way to get it to you.
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