Week 21 lab

Question 1

Homelessness Causes
Individual

Answer 1

• family displacement
• going out
• mental health reasons
• poor money management

Question 2

Homelessness Causes
Structural

Answer 2

• the cost of living
• lack of mental health services
• Not being employed

Question 3

Vitae (2010)
SCI
Safer Cities Initiative (similar to Ontario Safer Streets Act)

Answer 3

• increase in law enforcement, increase in tickets, sanctions

*Broken Windows Theory
- Wilson & Kelling 1982
- more visible signs of crime / social disorder, the more crime proliferates

Homeless - physical disorder (physicality that is not in order)

Question 4

Combatting homelessness

Answer 4

• mental health resources
• homeless shelters
• rehabilitative living
• resources (cell-phone?)
• government welfare
• safe injection sites
• get involved, vote (politics)