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When a reporter asked Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt about his plans to tackle homelessness, Pratt had a brusque response: “They’re not homeless. They’re drug addicts.”
“They are choosing to be on the street because they want to do drugs,” he added.
Activists expressed outrage at Pratt’s comments.
But he is correct: Much of Los Angeles’, and other cities’, homeless problems are the result of drug and alcohol abuse.
Homeless activists have long argued that most of the homeless don’t have problems with drug abuse or mental illness.
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Judge Glock is the director of research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal.