Building the Path to Home

Welcome to Building the Path to Home

This guide was designed for anyone—a landlord, a family member, a neighbour or a professional—who wants to help a person who has a developmental disability and a mental health problem improve his or her housing situation.

This section includes information on:

• how to use the navigation buttons and links
• what this guide can help you with
• what this guide cannot help you with
• how the content is organized.

We started with a plan to develop a small, easy-to-use guide about finding housing in response to urgent needs.

We came to realize that housing is only as sustainable for people if their safety net or cushion of support is strong and caring.

So, we expanded the guide to include material about how to best access all the pieces of support that help in either finding housing or making housing work for someone.

We hope that even though the idea got bigger, you can make it simple by finding the path that lets you get just what you need from the guide.

- The Dual Diagnosis Implementation Committee of Toronto Housing Issues Working Group