Mr Lanier. With all due respect, I believe it is your vision that is distorted.  You choose to view a film intended to help the homeless as propaganda against the homeless.  No one else has floated such a canard.  The film led directly to a proposal at the Legislature to float $2 billion in bonds to build affordable housing.  And it inspired Senator Josh Green to propose using Medicaid funds to help the homeless - a proposal I might add that is being considered right now in Washington DC.  

Though to be congratulated because not many do, the fact that you "actually talked to homeless people" does not make you an expert.  I spent many days and nights over the course of nearly two years on the streets with the homeless.  The vast majority of those who live on the streets ARE mentally ill and/or addicts. To attempt to whitewash that fact is to undermine the effort to improve the mental health outreach and services and the access to drug rehab that they desperately need.