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The 60,000-square-foot campus, which sits on 5.3 acres of once vacant land, has 40 studio apartments that, for now, will be for single men experiencing homelessness.
Interim findings in a new report commissioned by the City of Detroit, released this week, will inform a plan to address homelessness in Detroit. Detroit releases first-of-its-kind report on ...
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Depending on the age group in question and how homelessness is defined, the consensus estimate as of 2014 was that, at minimum, 25% of the American homeless—140,000 individuals—were seriously mentally ill at any given point in time. 45% percent of the homeless—250,000 individuals—had any mental illness.
They found that high rates of homelessness are caused by shortages of affordable housing, not by mental illness, drug addiction, or poverty. [9] [118] [119] They found that mental illness, drug addiction and poverty occur nationwide, but not all places have equally expensive housing costs.
Mental illness in Alaska is a current epidemic that the state struggles to manage. The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness stated that as of January 2018, Alaska had an estimated 2,016 citizens experiencing homelessness on any given day while around 3,784 public school students experienced homelessness over the course of the year as well. [10]
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