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While drug use and mental illness is higher among them, vast majority of the unhoused population is not drug addicted or severely mentally ill. Study after study show the main cause of homelessness is housing costs are too high and high rates of poverty https://unitedtoendhomelessness.org/blog/myth-most-homeless-people-are-either-mentally-ill-or-have-a-substance-use-disorder/ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-11/new-book-links-homelessness-city-prosperity https://www.addictionhelp.com/addiction/homelessness/#:~:text=Addiction%20and%20Homelessness&text=People%20who%20are%20homeless%20suffer,dependency%20while%2026%25%20abuse%20drugs.
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