SUMMARY - Mental Health Housing Supports
A man with schizophrenia was discharged from hospital with nowhere to go, the bed needed for someone else, his housing options exhausted. He sleeps in a shelter now, the noise and chaos worsening his symptoms, the stability he needs impossible to find. A woman in supportive housing has a case worker who checks in weekly, a landlord who understands mental illness, and a apartment she can afford. She has been stable for three years, the housing making the difference medication alone could not make.