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"Homelessness is not caused primarily by substance abuse or mental illness, but by low wages and a lack of affordable housing. Mental illness may be most jarring when we encounter an unhoused person in the throes of a mental health crisis, but the lack of support for people wrestling with mental illness is an acute failure of public policy that goes way beyond the issue of homelessness."
@corlin @LincolnMitchell I just did a bit of research and a minimum federal wage job gives a person $1300 a month, the cheapest studio apartment for one I could find in SanFran was $950 unfurnished, which means it's impossible to have any standard of life at that wage level.
Low minimum wages fuel bigger employers. People have to work longer to survive. It's nearly endentured servitude but hidden under the promise of hard work means riches! Not true for the majority so it's blatantly unfair.