Don’t Confuse Urban Drug Addiction With Homelessness: Living on the street is an intentional lifestyle, rooted in criminality.

A recent article in City Journal by Heather MacDonald argued that street homelessness is fundamentally an addiction and mental health crisis disguised as a housing shortage.AdvertisementI’ve been saying the same thing for a number of years. The romance of the poor homeless on city sidewalks being there because of capitalism, unfair equity practices, poverty, or racism is over. Yet the Left continues to pursue this romantic fiction, despite it being a lie.Once, there was an element of truth to this myth. The phrase, “Lift them up!” was a favorite among Philadelphia homeless activists.AdvertisementThe truly homeless — people not addicted to...