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To: bentway who wrote (78971)	6/22/2018 12:34:26 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361742

Here's another reason; as many 50% of them are mentally ill. Homeless Mentally Ill Facts and Figures - Mental Illness Policy Org Mar 20, 2017 - 250,000 mentally Ill are Homeless. 140,000 seriously mentally Ill are Homeless = The State of Homelessness in America - National Alliance to End ... There are an estimated 553,742 people in the United States experiencing homelessness on a given night, according to the most recent national point-in-time estimate (January 2017).

To: bentway who wrote (78971)	6/22/2018 1:38:27 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 361742

Likely a very complicated set of reasons; like you say high cost of housing and like wharf says mental illness - but I just don't think you can rule out the part immigrants flooding in can make on a community. I suspect the influx is way different between one community and the next but here where I am at - because it is a small community - the impact I think is very significant. It doesn't effect me - unless I want my yard done on the cheap - but I have empathy for those who have lost a job that use to require no schooling and no great level of smarts - to someone who is willing to work for less than these jobs paid in the past. ...........