These factors may all have played a role, but the most pervasive cause of West Coast homelessness is clear: heroin, fentanyl, and synthetic opioids.
If this figure holds constant throughout the West Coast, then at least 11,000 homeless opioid addicts live in Washington, 7,000 live in Oregon, and 65,000 live in California.
For drug cartels and low-level street dealers, the business of supplying homeless addicts with heroin, fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids is extremely lucrative.
Holding rates constant, we can project that the total business of supplying heroin and other opioids to the West Coast's homeless population is more than $1.8 billion per year.
West Coast cities are seeing a crime spike associated with homeless opioid addicts.
The consequences of such denial have proved disastrous: no city on the West Coast has a solution for homeless opioid addicts.
No matter how much local governments pour into affordable-housing projects, homeless opioid addicts-nearly all unemployed-will never be able to afford the rent in expensive West Coast cities.
https://www.city-journal.org/opiods-homelessness-west-coast
If this figure holds constant throughout the West Coast, then at least 11,000 homeless opioid addicts live in Washington, 7,000 live in Oregon, and 65,000 live in California.
For drug cartels and low-level street dealers, the business of supplying homeless addicts with heroin, fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids is extremely lucrative.
Holding rates constant, we can project that the total business of supplying heroin and other opioids to the West Coast's homeless population is more than $1.8 billion per year.
West Coast cities are seeing a crime spike associated with homeless opioid addicts.
The consequences of such denial have proved disastrous: no city on the West Coast has a solution for homeless opioid addicts.
No matter how much local governments pour into affordable-housing projects, homeless opioid addicts-nearly all unemployed-will never be able to afford the rent in expensive West Coast cities.
https://www.city-journal.org/opiods-homelessness-west-coast
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