HI,

I understood that only 7% of homeless people could be considered
schizophrenic.

And that the fastest-growing group of hostel users are youth under 18 and
families with children. Families were 46% of the people using Toronto
hostels in 1996.

People may want to look at the recent Golden report out of Toronto:

http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/mayor/homelessnesstf.htm

S

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From:   Laliberte Pierre[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]

Let's take a look at few more examples:

1. When you consider that some studies have found that about 30 % of all
the homeless suffer of a chronic (and severe) mental disorder (for most
part schizophrenia) and that they don't receive any treatment at all, it's
easy to imagine consequences...