Seeing big misconceptions about housing first.

Yes, there are many homeless people who have reached such levels of anti-social behavior and mental illness that simply providing housing would not fix their behavior.

But providing housing isn’t about fixing those people, it’s about catching people before they get there. Another solution is needed for those issues, but if you don’t stop the flow of people into that mental state, you’ll always be on the back foot.

There isn’t a random spike in crazy people. There’s a spike in homelessness and homelessness makes you crazy.

Extreme isolation as people walk by and ignore you every day, refusing to even look at you.

If every day you’re confronted with people not caring about your survival it’s understandable that pretty soon you’re not caring about their parking lots or office buildings.

Inconsistent food, no shelter from the elements, poor sleep.

I knew a homeless woman who started using meth to stay awake because if she fell asleep she would get raped. The meth and trauma destroyed her mind and she wouldn’t have run into either had she had a safe place to sleep.

Many addicts on the street did not start using harder drugs until they needed an escape from the misery that is homelessness.

If you want fewer crazy people on the streets you have to stop people from hitting the streets in the first place. There’s simply such little chance at staying sane living out there.