HOMELESSNESS & ADDICTION = CRIMINALITY?
“Victimology” in which society is reluctant to impose rules and consequences on the downtrodden. This fits with our own concerns about prolific offenders."
Which has created our justice system's revolving doors in Canada and America.
Which Comes First: Homelessness or Addiction?
Photo credit to Bicycle Health
Former Kamloops, British Columbia mayor & retired newspaper editor weighs in on the concept of offering separate rather than group housing.
RoseThorn House in Kamloops, BC
https://kamloops.cmha.bc.ca/programs-services/24-7-supportive-housing/
Photo credit to Rothenburger
The concept as shared by Rothenburger is categorizing homeless persons.
"According to this model, congregate housing works for low income and seniors but not for those with addictions and mental illnesses because it places them in an environment of erratic behavior and drug use.
"The difference between congregate housing and recovery oriented housing is straight forward. Congregate housing would be what we see all around Kamloops — downtown, on the North Shore, in Valleyview and on Columbia Street West, where the homeless are warehoused in second-hand motels, construction trailers and a few purpose-built facilities."
Bicycle Health offers an analysis of homelessness and addiction pointing the closure of numerous facilities decades ago which may have spawned a generation of addiction and homelessness.
https://www.bicyclehealth.com/blog/the-connection-between-homelessness-addiction
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