I came to this city just a short while back. I rented a room first in back-packers then to the "Y" where there were a great number of people living in truly unfit conditions. Though had a roof over there head; but, they were trying. I also found that the people on the street in Ottawa are nothing like the ones in Vancover, this is differnt city and the majority of them are not out to harm anyone. Though I feel that youth that have made themselves homeless are the ones to look at if you looking for problems and they are going to create the problems. On that note there are the youth that are homeless for other reasons that are trying to work within the system and they need to be congradulated for doing so.