Now, the way Chapman lived and died is the subject of a 12-day inquest that begins Monday. ( Chapman Family )His sister Leigh Chapman said she hopes the inquest will “shine a light” on how the homeless, especially those struggling with addiction as her brother did, are underserved by city and provincial social service nets. A Toronto Star investigation into how the 43-year-old father of three died in 2015 revealed that Toronto city authorities had never comprehensively measured how many underhoused people or those living rough die each year. Until the 2017 Toronto Public Health initiative, the city had never fully measured the number of homeless deaths. For about 30 years, volunteers tracked those deaths and kept an unofficial list at the Toronto Homeless Memorial, which now has more than 800 names.

Source: thestar November 26, 2018 10:02 UTC