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Before government crowded them out of the “ market” they were….in some form.

Could have been financial assistance, means tested, or just direct help.

I remember when I was 10 (1976) my friends very devout family had voluntarily taken in a drug addict into their home, at the behest of their church.

They had the guy living in my friends brothers room, who had relocated to my friends room for the time.

I can still smell the cigarettes they actually let him smoke in there….