Youth homelessness is rarely the starting point.

can you just speak to how many when we're talking about youth because you spoke on youth today when they're entering homelessness how mental health addictions family breakdown or social isolation becomes a part of that and if we would just concentrate on upstream funding more how we'll break those cycles before these youth fall into the addiction themselves. Thank you thank you through chair there's a famous study in World War two where they looked at planes that survived and they they saw where the planes had taken damage and then they assumed that they needed to strengthen these parts of the plane but in fact that's the opposite it's the planes that didn't survive these were the planes that survived and so similarly in homelessness we see lots of addiction lots of mental health lots of poverty but we're not actually seeing all the people that didn't become homeless so if you look at addictions addiction serious serious addiction in Canada is probably 16% and so if homelessness is roughly 1% of the population at any given time we would expect that if addiction was a major driver of homelessness that we'd expect to see a lot more homeless but we're not and so that's part of the so why that's the question and what I find is if we take and I call it the unifying theory of homelessness it's your your people are homeless because they're an inability to leverage a social relationship for housing and so why are people with serious addictions not flooding our streets is because they have family and they have friends and they go out of their way to make sure that these people are housed and so the people that we see on the streets are people where for some reason they have not been able to access those supports and so the work we do is recognizing that and seeing how can we support people to better their relationships and then allow the system the natural system not the for-profit paid system to support people through housing thank you not a hundred percent of the cases they didn't have support so I had a I had family who loved me very much but showed me tough love and while I was in active addiction I wasn't allowed home but when I was ready to cover I was and so that's a piece of it I think as well moving forward there's some people who fall in you know because it was fun in high school and then it just turned into something that they didn't ever expect to happen and so we need to support anybody who wants to recover and who needs to recover at any given moment that they want to