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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
If you move an addict into a home does the addict stop being an addict?
How many of the homeless people walking around are waiving their ability to level 1 on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and NOT addicts? I'd wager... maybe 5-10% max. If that even?
So, building houses is a stop-gap, short-term, non-permanent, bandaid fix that will not stop the real problem which is, of course, addiction.
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I don't disagree, but we as a society have to start somewhere. And addressing those needs keeps folks alive to treat other diseases such as addiction.