... and the increase of rent play a huge role in homelessness. As the amount of low income families grow the number of affordable housing decreases. Right now there is approximately one unit for every three poor households that can afford it, forcing these people to the streets. Then we have the deinstitutionalization in which mentally ill people that were once housed in ... is it that we always hear about the homeless guy that was beaten or hit with a stun gun by some juvenile delinquent because they were sleeping on a bench in Public Square? Please someone give me an explanation for this ...

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