Yes, absolutely. They aren't two separate groups, there's essentially a pipeline from group 2 to 1.
Imagine struggling with addiction or mental health issues. Now imagine doing it without a safe and secure place to even sleep at night.
Imagine struggling with addiction or mental health issues. Now imagine doing it without a safe and secure place to even sleep at night.
For drug addiction the problem is more subtle but I question whether this part of the pipeline is worth considering when looking at the problem at scale. There is no serious attempt as far as I'm aware to measure the number of people that transition from #2 to #1 style homelessness, and since it is difficult to measure this it is very likely that solutions to #2 will have no effect on this pipeline.