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Originally Posted by BorisMolotov
The majority of those homeless are due to drug addictions or mental illness. Wouldn't the better way to spend the money be in mental health facilities and care? I realize that these are definitely not mutually exclusive and in many ways go hand in hand, but I'm sick of yet more funding for treating only the symptoms rather than the cause. I wish that there was a massive public campaign to reduce stigma of receiving mental health treatment. If I had my druthers that's what I would spend on.
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I don't know specifically what Chicago plans to spend on, but the national trend is toward "Housing First," which gets people housed so that they have the stability for other treatments to work.
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