Listen, I'm 66 years old. I used to work in the downtown eastside in the seventies. In the seventies there were a lot of people who had mental illness, but it wasn't such a big deal then. Why? Well, in the seventies there were places for these people to go. We didn't fight against homelessness, because there was virtually none.
We have a huge issue with homelessness. There are many mentally ill people who aren't poor, and you don't see them on the streets, because they're in their house. Of course we need supports; of course we need a good mental health system, and it needs improvements, of course. But the absolute, basic thing is that you have to have some housing.