To people who believe drug addiction is to blame for L.A.'s tent cities, West Virginia presents a paradox. It leads the U.S. in overdose deaths per capita. But it has a low rate of homelessness.
Signs advertising drug rehab or access to emergency overdose kits are easy to spot here. It’s harder to find the downtown homeless encampment, a discrete cluster of three tents along the Ohio River, squeezed by a bridge and a construction site. To people who believe drug addiction is to blame for the mushrooming tent cities in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., West Virginia presents a paradox. It leads the nation in overdose deaths per capita — by a wide margin.
The state has 50 affordable and available rental homes for every 100 extremely-low-income households, more than double the number that California has, according to a study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. An average family here can afford a modest two-bedroom rental on less than $17 an hour, the second-lowest figure in the nation.
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