this is completely true, but they take up a very disproportionate amount of time and energy from social service providers, people who work in shelters, etc, and make all spaces for homeless people much more chaotic.
the crisis would look very different if it was just a mix of people dealing with drug addiction (but basically lucid and rational) and with poverty.
"drug addiction (but basically lucid and rational) "
Serious drug addicts are seldom lucid and rational.
But I very much do get the point, that solving the schizophrenic problem, would help a lot with everything else. (I am just way more sceptical, that this drug can deliver that)
the crisis would look very different if it was just a mix of people dealing with drug addiction (but basically lucid and rational) and with poverty.