HOW COME there are so many homeless people in American cities? By now the literature has established that at least a third of them are drug-addicted or mentally disturbed and would not stay in a dwelling even if it were available to them. Still, many other homeless people simply cannot afford the rent at which apartments are available.
This seems strange. If you need a new jacket you usually can buy it. If you can’t spend five hundred dollars, you can find one for fifty. If that is too much, you can go to a thrift shop and get a used one for ten dollars or less. How come? The market for old and new jackets is not regulated by the government.
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