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I was looking at the 25% number not really the 45% figure for any mental illness. The rate among chronically homeless is much, much higher than 25% for the "generally" homeless. I've worked in the healthcare field specifically dealing with the homeless and at risk and I've seen nurses pick a...

According the 2015 AHAR report put out by HUD and summarized by mentalillnesspolicy.org: 564,708 people were homeless on a given night in the United States. Depending on the age group in question, and how homelessness is defined, the consensus estimate as of 2014 was that, at minimum, 25...

Yeah and in addition to being mentally ill they are drug addicts to boot. It's almost like the rise in a unstable and dangerous class of homeless directly corresponds to the closure of the asylums at the turn of the 21st century and the sweeping opiate epidemic.