Completely false. Homelessness is about mental illness and substance abuse. Economics plays almost no role in homelessness.
“Economics plays almost no role in homelessness.”
You are prtially right there. Economics is only a part of homelessness. And all the other things you mentioned are not the cause of homelessness, but the outcome. If economics plays no part, then how can a person survive like they do without an economy making life available. If everyone was the same and used everything they receivied, there would be nothing left for the homeless. No food, no money, no clothing...nothing to have. But it is our economy which is stronger at the moment than a true communistic way of life that they survive. What you see is the failure of the economy to have them own a home and have a job to fend for themselves. But that is their decision. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” Or feeds himself. They just don’t want to learn. And that’s another topic.
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