In Canada, homelessness is a rapidly growing social injustice. The stigma and degradation faced day after day by the homeless people of Toronto, is more than atrocious. Our society is quick to assign blame, while homelessness has become synonymous with idleness, and lack of education. Stereotypes and selective perception have blinded us from the true factors causing, and maintaining this crisis. We fail to see that at least 30 percent of people living on the street, struggle with mental illness. Mental disabilities, coupled with lack of adequate housing, make for a fatal combination. This…
