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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 26 March 2015 11:31:36AM 0 points [-]

(Most homeless, especially long time homeless have a mental illness.) And then he proceeds to reason from them and expects people to agree.

Cite? My assumption is that the proportion of homeless people who are normal people down on their luck is much higher when the economy has been bad for a while.