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It's tough because many situations are different and reasons why someone is homeless. In this comic the guy says he got sick, so it's clear this situation a free housing solution would probably help.
In many situations there is a combined addiction and mental health issue that creates the problem. From my own experience with family, we had someone who needed help but refused it and it resulted in having them removed from the home.
People can become homeless like that and continue to refuse help and they go from friend to friend without making a change until they're friendless and homeless. The biggest issue is they don't want to accept the actual help they need but would rather just a hand out of money.
You got the order backwards. Homelessness creates drug addiction, not the other way around.
I don't think that's always true. Some people develop a drug addiction and then that leads to homelessness. Spend increasing amounts of time and money on drugs instead of life needs, and then they're broke jobless and out of options.
Someone who's homeless may use drugs and develop an addiction, too. But the order of events isn't fixed. I don't know how common either order is.
Wealthy people use drugs at far higher rates than poor people. Drugs are expensive after all. The difference is that when you're poor, drug use makes you homeless.
Also, I sure as hell would want to be high 24/7 if I had to sleep on the sidewalk.
Precarious circumstances creates drug addictions.