(11-06-2022, 08:45 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-06-2022, 07:52 AM)Sneakers Wrote: All right let's get back on topic.  Maybe mikesez will share his research supporting his claim that eviction causes mental illness.

It's intuitive that homelessness will be bad for your brain.

You're never going to see a controlled experiment on that, though. All scientists can say is that they are correlated. Same story with substance abuse.  There is a strong correlation between substance abuse and homelessness but it's not possible, ethically, to show which way the causation goes.  

Further, most homeless people don't have mental illness and most don't abuse drugs. But if you feel sure that all we have to do is "treat the drug problem" then you should be equally sure that we need to "treat the mental health problem".  

Meanwhile, assuming you're successful in treating those problems, where are they going to live after treatment? 
Lack of affordable housing is the problem at the beginning and the end.  And that has been proven, because rent and wage data are much higher quality than data on mental illness and drug use.  High rent causes homelessness.  Rent control does not lower rent.  Only building more housing lowers rent.