Vagrant Psychiatric Patients.

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This paper explains how approximately one-third of homeless persons in Toronto, as elsewhere in North America, are mentally ill, and often mentally ill persons with addictions. According to this paper, exploration reveals the poverty of assessment and planning is rooted in a concept of being 'unhoused' as the determinant of vagrancy, in another buzzword of 'homelessness' that does not indicate what a complex problem really it.

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"Urban geographers often discuss Homelessness in relation to housing, planning, and future scenarios of more affordable housing. In this manner, estimated non-housed individuals are discussed in a city or a region, in relation to units of housing, as though sufficient housing will eradicate a complex problem that has become entrenched in Western cities, through the last generation. As this paper stresses, the very term of `homelessness' obscures the problems, at hand. As the public and some planners may not know, thousands of mentally ill persons make up a large proportion of `the homeless' in any North American city."

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