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Cheers for a demonstration of how debatable these claims are.

One thing that bothers me about such claims is they hardly explain what seems to be a secularly rising homeless rate over the last thirty years. Sure, we haven't seen a brain injury epidemic during that time but certainly we've seen social and economic policy changes during that time.

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>we haven't seen a brain injury epidemic during that time but certainly we've seen social and economic policy changes during that time

That doesn't rule out a correlation between brain injury and homelessness; the social and economic policy changes might have the effect that fewer brain-injured people get the care they need to avoid becoming homeless.

In a thriving economy, workers with problems can often get jobs. When the economy tanks and layoffs occur it's the most weak and vulnerable who are hit the hardest.

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