Abstract
This paper examines homelessness in Toronto within the context of the term "community", further considering the different definitions for community. Additionally, the paper questions whether a community is hampered or damaged by something such as poverty. The paper examines all of this and also looks at what this writer proposes be done to reduce homelessness in the city.

From the Paper
"The following paper will look at homelessness in Toronto within the context of the term, "community". That is to say, what are the different definitions which one can find for community and how is a community - in every sense of the word - hampered or damaged by something such as poverty? The next several pages will examine all of this and also look at what this writer proposes be done to reduce homelessness in the city that is still, in most every respect, the economic engine of Canada. The word "community" has many connotations and even more than a few denotations, as well. The obvious definition is that a community is a..."

Tags:homelessness, toronto, community

Abstract
In this article, the writer notes that homelessness in Toronto is an ever-growing problem facing the city. The materialization of this problem has not been caused by one single action or event. Rather, it has been growing due to several factors facing homeless individuals, as well as the society and the government. This paper discusses the extent of the problem of homelessness in Toronto, the problems that the homeless people are facing today as well as the factors that have led to a rise in homelessness, including the cutbacks in social programmers and policy by the government. Finally, the writer discusses what needs to be done in order to deal with this problem.

From the Paper
"Homeless people also face many barriers to accessing the healthcare system, sometimes simply because they do not have a permanent address or because their health card has been stolen. Furthermore, there are prevailing false beliefs and stereotypes about the homeless, particularly since historically homelessness has been linked to vagrancy. Many still believe that homelessness in the result of an inadequacy or failure of an individual rather than the responsibility of the society. Many studies have pointed to the fact that the increase in the number of homeless citizens significantly burdens many other services: health, legal, employment etc."

Tags:shelters, conditions, risk, Toronto

Abstract
This assignment researches the causes of homelessness in Toronto. It takes a look at the issues surrounding the problem of homelessness and why it's considered to be a national disaster.

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"Homelessness is one of the greatest social problems facing Canada. The problem has become so bad that the Mayors of Canada's largest cities declared homelessness a national disaster (Lenon 123). There is a great deal of argument about the rise in homelessness. Some researchers and policy makers have suggested that homelessness is a problem caused by the people experiencing it. Others argue that homelessness is a problem caused by the erosion of the welfare state under neo-liberal policies. This research will argue for the second argument. It will prove this by using a questionnaire."

Tags:causes, of, homelessness

Abstract
This paper focuses on the problem of homelessness in Toronto, which is an ever-growing problem facing the city. The paper explains that the materialization of this problem has not been caused by one single action or event. Rather, it has been growing due to several factors facing homeless individuals, as well as the society and the government. This paper will discuss the extent of the problem of homelessness in Toronto, the problems that the homeless people are facing today as well as the factors that have led to a rise in homelessness, including the cutbacks in social programmers and policy by the government. Finally, the paper will discuss what needs to be done in order to deal with this problem.

From the Paper
"Homelessness in Toronto is an ever-growing problem facing the city. The materialization of this problem has not been caused by one single action or event. Rather, it has been growing due to several factors facing homeless individuals, as well as the society and the government. This paper will discuss the extent of the problem of homelessness in Toronto, the problems that the homeless people are facing today as well as the factors that have led to a rise in homelessness, including the cutbacks in social programmers and policy by the government. Finally, the paper will discuss what needs to be done in order to deal with this problem."

Tags:vagrancy, north, america, transient, poverty

Abstract
This paper discusses the jargon of "globalization" and what we are to call "homelessness" in relation to topics of urban geography, medical geography, and implications for planners. The paper discusses long term implications of a permanent under-class, as predictable symptom of the modernization theory that is part and parcel of globalization's neo-liberal growth model.

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"Globalization and `Homelessness' in Central Toronto. Introductory Discussion The euphemism of `Globalization' that is used to refer to neo-liberal economic planning involves the removal of safety net spending in developed economies. A second euphemism is found in globalization's unwanted by-product of severe unwanted poverty among those we are accustomed to discussing, now, as "the homeless", a phenomenon that is a side-effect of the economic model that now prevails. By examining the example of central Toronto's vagrant destitution, one sees duplicated a phenomenon known in most Western cities, of the present, and with increasing homeless also reported in the notoriously strong economy of Japan. (Hasegawa: 2005)"

Tags:homelessness, globalization, implications

Abstract
This paper explains that the homeless community can be seen as a community because they are people trapped in a common cycle from which they would like to escape, with common interests in finding shelter and adequate food, which often compels them to act in unison performing petty crime as a means of survival. The author points out that, if the burgeoning homeless problem in Toronto is not addressed, then the community of Toronto will start to see an increase in crime and movement out of the areas populated by homeless people thus creating impoverished pockets within the city. The paper recommends that funds, which have been earmarked for homeless shelters and other programs should be spent rather than be languishing somewhere because of bureaucratic red-tape. The author suggest that this money should be invested in re-training programs and the conversion of brown fields areas into affordable housing condominiums for the working poor.

From the Paper
"Toronto's homeless situation can also be looked at by looking at Marxist definitions of what a community is - or, more precisely, what it is not. For instance, those academics who subscribe to Marxist theory maintain that communities are manifestations of the class dialectic; in other words, communities are organized in such a way as to ensure the exploitation of some by others at the same time as they reveal the inequalities present in a capitalist society. While this assessment of the community can be dismissed as unduly cynical and extreme, there is little doubt that Toronto is a city of extremes."

Tags:two-parent, common, crime, money, unison, housing

Abstract
The paper describes the incidence of crack cocaine addiction and its relation to mental illness and homelessness. The paper researches the treatment approaches in central Canada and compares them to the more varied, successful treatments and therapies in the United Kingdom and Europe. The paper notes Canada's resigned attitude towards a form of addiction that is considered 'untreatable' or 'hopeless'. The paper reveals the need for Canada to actively encourage crack addicts to attempt recovery, to learn more about different approaches to treatment and finally, adapt them to the Toronto environment.

Outline:
Introduction
Not Just Addiction
A Second Intervention
Towards a Different Approach
Concluding Discussion

From the Paper
"An important dimension of the problem is the coincidence of crack addiction and mental illness. Crack addicts often present symptoms of the mood disorders and psychosis in addition to those of the personality disorders found in almost 25 per cent. (Falck Et Al: 2004:504) In homeless patients, it can be difficult to determine a primary problem of mental illness or addiction. Many vagrant schizophrenics, for example, become addicted to crack just as crack cocaine induces symptoms of paranoid psychosis in persons without histories of mental illness. Through it all, homelessness remains a key determinant of addicts' health. (Fischer Et Al: 2005:252) Awareness of crack cocaine addiction in homeless populations enhances insight into why many homeless persons remain as they are, failing to take up occasional opportunities for housing."

Tags:Harm, Reduction, Model, vagrants, street, crime, therapies, recovery

Abstract
In this essay the writer discusses the central grid of homelessness in Toronto with attention to health. The writer refers to Fitzpatrick & LaGory on spatial identification of homeless persons, to fieldwork indicating a local culture of homelessness and some interviews. Further, the writer makes much reflection on what the problems are and what could be done, given that homeless persons of low health seem to be a permanent reality.

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"Fitzpatrick & LaGory note that the, "the spatial deprivation of homelessness represents an extreme form of poverty". They refer to the spatial in terms of a sense of place, whereas there may be other ways to interpret the spatial reality of the homeless person. In central Toronto, one finds a way of life that may suit some individuals, perhaps ironically, while presenting serious risks to health that are less found in housed persons. There is an `urban health penalty' assigned to those who live in poorer areas of North American cities."

Tags:toronto, homeless, health

Abstract
Paper discussing two agencies serving the Toronto homeless in "519" Church Street Community Cente and Native Men's Residence, both United Way recipients. These are outlined in terms of services and approaches, their strongest assets found in understanding of different aspects of homelessness; paper refers to experiments and observations elsewhere in Western countries; comments on how homelessness tends to be discussed by poorly informed policy makers and others; diverse references.

From the Paper
Two Toronto Agencies Serving Homeless Persons. Introduction Since the late 1970s de-institutionalization of psychiatric patients in Ontario, the growing phenomenon of Homelessness has inspired an array of agencies that cater to the needs of vagrant persons. The role of vagrant psychiatric patients in commencing urban solutions to homelessness tends to be under-realized although a large proportion of homeless persons, thirty years later, remain persons with significant mental illness. (Hartford et al:2003) In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the tremendous amplification of homelessness in Toronto as a result of neo-liberal

Tags:toronto, 519, native men's residence

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Homelessness is explained as a misnomer in view of a vagrant population for whom the lack of a home is rarely the primary problem. Mention of one-third severely mentally ill persons; one-third addicts and/or involved in the justice system; miscellaneous poor, rejected persons alone in the world. Critical remarks on public health issue, uncaring public, false orientation of policies geared to making housing more accessible or raising the minimum wage as misrepresentations of what the problem is.

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Reflections on `Homelessness' in Toronto. Introduction The post-modern condition in the developed West of the early 21^st century includes the phenomenon of homelessness that when explored in the central Canadian city of Toronto is found to involve `homelessness' as a shared feature of persons at the very outskirts of conventional society. Given the opportunity to view and sometimes speak with persons of kinds for which the present society or economic system has no place, the people somehow expendable in a society catering quite well to gender equity in the workplace, the rights of civil servants, human rights abuses involving

Tags:toronto, homelessness, explanation