Yesterday I received an e-mail from Mary Garcia-Lemus, the producer of the documentary film "Suckerfish," who wanted to know if I knew how many homeless persons had mental health issues. I couldn’t directly recall what the percentage was but, I knew I had read something about it, so I did a quick search and came up with some statistical numbers and was unpleasantly surprised by the numbers I had found.
The National Coalition for the Homeless gave the number of adult single homeless who suffer from one form of mental illness or another as being between 20% and 25%. (more…)
