Drug addict is a disease, not a failing of the individual, we lack the support to aid those with addict to better health.
Also, I am not saying you are lying, but there is often a direct mental association with the unhoused and addiction. A few of them may be addicts and we extrapolate it to the whole group.
You don’t understand how addiction or homeless work. They won’t continue to be homeless until they stop taking drugs. They need support systems to aid in recovery, and support for housing. Often times the unhoused become addicts after they experience homelessness, not the other way around, it’s a stress response to self medicate.
Also, at the end of the day, they are still human, and we should not treat them as anything less. We should not remove services from the whole because we are afraid of the unhoused. So many parks were never built because people were afraid of the unhoused, so many public bathrooms were closed, so many benches removed. We can’t continue on treating them like ourcasts.of society, we need to support them in getting physically and mentally healthy.