Houses for homeless, no strings attached

300 people in Toronto to be housed in September as part of $110-million study

Toronto is about to join four other Canadian cities in a $110-million study aimed at determining how best to house homeless people who are mentally ill.

The Health Canada-funded project, being run by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, a non-profit group, intends to house 300 people in Toronto through a "housing first'' approach, meaning regardless of whether the client is off drugs, alcohol or both, housing will be provided for them.

"Housing first means housing isn't contingent on all these rules,'' Keller says in an interview, adding the project will offer treatment for drug, alcohol or psychiatric problems – if participants seek it.

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Ron Payne
Welfare Legal