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Originally Posted by Agent86
People don't make the decision to become homeless, people who are homeless often times have mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder which in turn lead to the use of illegal drugs in order to self-medicate the symptoms. That isn't even starting to mention the stresses associated with living on the streets without knowing that there is an apartment waiting for them when they decided they were done slumming it for a month. Listen to most any homeless persons or drug addicts story - there is a lot of abuse, often sexual and the situations they were leaving were not much better, in some cases worse, than living on the streets.
The problem of homelessness in no small part stems from the closure of mental health facilities and increased outpatient programs, in which people slip through the cracks and go down a dark path.
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I in no way disagree with you. In "Streets of Plenty" they make that very point and discuss the closure of mental facilities and the effect on homelessness in Vancouver.
My point was: if you say that "Streets of Plenty" is about a rich kid mocking homless people, you need to pay better attention to the second half of the movie.