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The streets' sickest, costliest: the mentally ill
Posted on Jun 29 2016
San Francisco Chronicle
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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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