Toronto’s University Health Network aims to treat homelessness as a health issue

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Despite research showing chronically unhoused people live half as long as the general population, housing is not always considered as part of health care. UHN wants to change that

“Imagine that there was a disease that siphoned off half of people’s life expectancy,” the physician said. From a health care perspective, there would be nothing more important. It would be all hands on deck.”

“Homelessness is a health issue,” said Dr. Boozary, the executive director of the Gattuso Centre. He added that, “in medicine, we’ve been addressing this with Band-Aid solutions. We need to find a different way to respond.” “You might as well build it well. I think you can design beautiful places on a budget and deliver well-made housing that can really improve people’s experience.”

 

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