KFF Health News March 28, 2025
Is homelessness a mental health and addiction crisis, or is it driven by an affordable housing crisis? That question underpins the debate among policymakers and politicians struggling to move people off the streets faster than they become homeless.
Researchers say housing is the most important intervention to end homelessness, and now a report from the University of California-San Francisco sheds deeper insight: While California’s high housing costs and low incomes drive people into homelessness, those with behavioral health conditions face added risk of becoming homeless. And once people lose housing, homelessness makes them more likely to use drugs or experience a mental health problem.
The report found that nearly half of homeless adults in California have a serious...
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