People who suffer from mental illness, poverty and precarious housing face a terrible burden of increased illness and early death. Forty Is Too Young to Die documents the health challenges and sets out four practical measures for health and housing authorities. The report has been prepared by Mainstay Housing, a Toronto non-profit agency that provides housing for 867 mental health consumer-survivors, which makes it the largest supportive housing provider in Ontario.
The Wellesley Institute’s Precarious Housing In Canada documents the links between housing and health, sets out current issues and offers practical suggestions for a new national housing plan for Canada.