Sherrie:
You brought up a good point.  People get ill when they live on
the street.  As well, the mentally ill are often homeless because
of our cruel treatment of sending the "mentally ill" back "to live
in the community" when in fact community resources to help them
are scarce or non-existent.
The other good point you brought up was women and children.
Most of the homeless I see are men.  Extreme poverty amoung
women and children is even more invisible than that amoung
men.
Viviane Caplan

On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Sherrie Tingley wrote:

> On Thursday, October 23, 1997 10:03 AM, Viviane Caplan[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
>
> Viviane,
>
> It is so nice to hear from you!!!
> > By ignoring the homeless, by not quantifying their deaths and the
> > fact that these people are very ill - we are just creating a
> > condition in which we are getting rid of the homeless by the
> > sin of ommission.
>
> I am not sure if you mean people are ill because they do not have housing or are you saying that they are homeless because they are ill??
>
> Remember in Ontario we have a very large group of the invisible homeless, women with children.
>
> S
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> Sherrie Tingley
> Barrie Action Committee for Women
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