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To: roto who wrote (94455)	8/24/2025 1:09:14 PM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97593

The vast majority of homeless people are either mentally ill or victims of trauma. About 1/3 of the homeless are in that situation due to financial difficulty. My wife works with homeless teens and twenty-somethings. The homeless problems first started cropping up in the late 70's after the laws changed in 1972 to allow mentally ill people agency over their lives. This released most from prison-like institutions. The other factor in the rise of homelessness was the PTSD afflicted Vietnam vets who were not getting treatment for this affliction. There was an Army study done after WWII that showed something like only 10% of US GI's on Okinawa actually fired their weapons (I'm going by memory here). What emerged from this was a pivot in training soldiers from competency to making them killing machines. This fed the surge of PTSD in Vietnam vets, as Vietnam was the first conflict this training was put to use in. Anyway, like most social issues, this is a complex one. Sure, there are people who abuse the system and locate to areas that have fair weather and lax enforcement. There have been some trial programs where people have been given access to housing, job training and education, and cash assistance to get them out of the downward spiral. I've seen some of these, and the people who are picked for these programs tend to remain off the street for good. However, there is a high bar to surpass to get chosen to be in one of these programs. They want to make sure the money spent has a high ROI for the investment in the people. You also have abuse within agencies that are charged with helping the homeless. In LA, there is a large Christian organization that focuses only on the homeless, and their director was "retired" a couple of years ago. Why? He was raping tons of homeless teens his organization was charged to help. His crimes were not made public, but there was quite a line of org members going out the door when this creep was allowed to get away completely without consequences because the organization didn't want to lose funding and donations.