December 14, 2019
City News – News 1130
British Columbia
Lauren Boothby
Institutionalization not the way to stop homelessness: psychologist
A clinical psychologist says a call to institutionalize homeless people with serious mental illnesses by Nanaimo’s mayor isn’t the solution.
Julian Somers, also a professor at Simon Fraser University, says experts already know how to stop homelessness, that’s by giving people stable and permanent housing, first.
But he says the province hasn’t been listening.