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Studies like this are important to counter the reactionary perspective that giving money to those experiencing housing will just feed addiction.

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To be fair they did exclude people who had severe levels of addiction from this program.

That being said, there’s more homeless people without severe addictions than with them so the logic still works.

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I think you’re vastly overestimating the proportion of people against social safety nets who would change their tune when presented with indisputable evidence that they are wrong.

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No, i feel you, but once you have data, you no longer have to even entertain those people in debate. You just act based on the data.

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Too bad the people that ignore it are the ones making those decisions in the first place

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The study specifically selected people with no substance abuse problem… if anything the author of the study were wary of what you say is a reactionary perspective.

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