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Originally Posted by galleyfox
European countries institutionalize the severely mentally ill.
European homeless are mostly just drunks and the functional drug addicts, and they do use prison to deter stuff like open drug dealing and camping on streets.
American homeless includes a lot of people who are clinically insane, and drug addicts who take advantage of lenient arrest policies.
It’s no surprise that housing works for the first group and fails for the second.
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I've been to Europe several dozen times and the visible homeless there mostly look like the visible homeless here.