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Research for the <\/span>Our Health Counts<\/a> (2018) Toronto report found that during the survey period, 35% of Indigenous adults in the city were homeless (defined as living with a friend or family, in shelters, or on the street) or precariously housed (defined as living in rooming or group homes). By comparison, only 4% of non-Indigenous residents had experienced similar precarity in the previous five years. According to a 2011 Toronto hospitals report, 14% of Indigenous mental health patients reported being homeless, compared with only 8% of patients from the general population (Toronto Central LHIM as cited in <\/span>A Reclamation of Wellbeing: Visioning a Thriving and Healthy Urban Indigenous Community<\/a> 2016, p. 7).<\/span>\r\n\r\nOf Indigenous adults who were stably housed, 44% reported that they were living in social housing, and only 4% owned their homes. The Indigenous population is also more mobile than the non-Indigenous population within the city, with 52% of adults having moved once in the year (compared with 14% of non-Indigenous residents), and 34% having moved three or more times in the year. Such mobility decreases one\u2019s sense of stability within a home environment and community, as well as adding costs and complications (Our Health Counts<\/a> 2018).\r\n\r\nWhile 18% of Indigenous residents have always lived in Toronto, and 22% moved to Toronto from reservations, the majority, at 42%, moved to Toronto from another Canadian city. Most moved to Toronto for family or social reasons (40%), employment (33%), or education (26%) (Our Health Counts<\/a> 2018).\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"Housing is essential to maintaining good physical and mental health<\/a>, providing a feeling of security, and a place from which to develop a sense of community. Urban Indigenous populations experience higher rates of precarious housing than non-Indigenous urban populations (Smylie et al, 2011 as cited in Our Health Counts<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of Indigenous adults who were stably housed, 44% reported that they were living in social housing, and only 4% owned their homes. The Indigenous population is also more mobile than the non-Indigenous population within the city, with 52% of adults having moved once in the year (compared with 14% of non-Indigenous residents), and 34% having moved three or more times in the year. Such mobility decreases one\u2019s sense of stability within a home environment and community, as well as adding costs and complications (Our Health Counts<\/a> 2018).<\/p>\n While 18% of Indigenous residents have always lived in Toronto, and 22% moved to Toronto from reservations, the majority, at 42%, moved to Toronto from another Canadian city. Most moved to Toronto for family or social reasons (40%), employment (33%), or education (26%) (Our Health Counts<\/a> 2018).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-112","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/112\/revisions\/229"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/85"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/112\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/indigenoustorontoresearchresource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Research for the <\/span>Our Health Counts<\/a> (2018) Toronto report found that during the survey period, 35% of Indigenous adults in the city were homeless (defined as living with a friend or family, in shelters, or on the street) or precariously housed (defined as living in rooming or group homes). By comparison, only 4% of non-Indigenous residents had experienced similar precarity in the previous five years. According to a 2011 Toronto hospitals report, 14% of Indigenous mental health patients reported being homeless, compared with only 8% of patients from the general population (Toronto Central LHIM as cited in <\/span>A Reclamation of Wellbeing: Visioning a Thriving and Healthy Urban Indigenous Community<\/a> 2016, p. 7).<\/span><\/p>\n