The Homeless face more issues than the rest of us.
Some obvious problems are:
- Bacterial contamination of found food
- Malnutrition
- Contagious disease
And then there are the “Ordinary Catastrophes” like air pollution, heat waves, hurricanes and floods that are absolute killers.
Caroline Cormier has written an excellent article for Esurio: Journal of Hunger and Poverty about Toronto Homelessness which was recently published. Here is an excerpt; please click Cormier Article above, for the full read.
With an inextricable link existing between the growing homeless population and the severe shortage of affordable housing, the City of Toronto is facing an unprecedented challenge. While there is no viable method of measuring Toronto’s homeless population, in the last year nearly 30,000 different people were reported as users of Toronto’s shelter system.
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