The streets' sickest, costliest: the mentally ill | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

The streets’ sickest, costliest: the mentally ill

Posted on June 29, 2016

The Chronicle led more than 70  news organizations to focus intensively on San Francisco’s seemingly intractable problem of homelessness. This particular story. Nsationwide, approximately a third of homeless persons live with mental illness--and 80% of those who are chronically homeless.

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