There is a lack of treatment and support for various addictions and physical and sexual abuse. If this issue were addressed, the marginalization of homeless populations, including women, Aboriginal people and youth, would dramatically decrease. For example, with street women working as prostitutes, providing them with housing is not enough. These women have many more concerns than just housing and need support to overcome what they are currently experiencing and their past. This cycle continues because their basic social and human needs are not being met. Subsequent generations born into poverty and violence are also at risk of continuing the cycle of homelessness. To solve many of these problems, important treatments and different types of support are needed. As a society, we need to stop seeing the homeless in our city as troublemakers or misfits and start seeing them as one of us. The government must step in and create more than just housing, but also institutions and treatment centers to help with their basic human needs, health issues and traumas that are occurring and have occurred. Simply providing housing is not enough as many young people and others return to the streets and continue their usual lifestyle. On the government's part, establishing programs to clean up Vancouver's homeless population and promising jobs would also be a solution rather than making them go back to their old habits. There is a need for various counselors to provide interventions and other one-on-one support and guidance to homeless people to help them deal with their mental and psychological problems as well. Many homeless people have been using drugs for a long time, and most addicts have tried to get clean multiple times. So is attending detox clinics and treatment programs for a long period of time and avoiding relapse