Giving a home to the homeless will also help their mental health

As Depaul,the cross-border charity supporting people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, we observed World Homeless Day and World Mental Health Day over the weekend by highlighting the link between homelessness and mental ill-health.

People who are homeless experience much higher levels of mental ill-health than the general population and mental ill-health is often an input as well as an output of homelessness.

In other words untreated mental illness can often be a causative factor of homelessness, particularly when combined with drug or alcohol addiction.