You are absolutely right. Therapy is very limited in how much it can help if the social and economic conditions in which people live are harmful and don't change. If you're dealing with so much right now, you might need social services more than therapy.

This was a big problem in all places I worked at as an intern. The population we served was trying to survive on the basic level. They were dealing with so many socio-economic stressors, as well as legal problems that therapists often had to perform the functions of social workers, which wasn't their job. This is such a broken system.