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and believe me, I was neither drug addicted nor mentally disabled at the time. What I was.. was just divorced and BROKE. Ex's divorce attorney ran for state senate the following year and won. I'll let you figure who got the best of the deal out of the divorce. grrr Finally managed to get a job (this was in the mid-80's) and make a deal with one apartment complex that would work with me until my first paycheck came in. Until then, daughter and I lived in my Plymouth Horizon in a Best Buy parking lot. And this was what... 40 years ago?

Now we've had inflation, greedflation, a Pandemic, and "depressed economies" for decades at a time... all the while rents and everything else goes sky high. People are forced out of their homes via foreclosures, or sell them any way they can to get money into their hands (and to the other creditors bearing down on them) via the "We Buy Ugly Houses" companies. But the general notion put out there are people are homeless camping because they WANT to... or because they spend all their money on drugs or booze. And ya know what? I wouldn't blame those people buying a bit of drug or booze once in a while to escape the poverty and despair. But that may NOT be what landed them there in the first place! Especially not when you have whole families living hard...