"People who experience homelessness are 28 times more likely to have hepatitis C, five times more likely to have heart disease and four times more likely to have cancer," Dosani says.
"And homelessness is cutting life expectancies in half. The average age of death is between 34 to 47 years old compared to 77 to 82 years old for people who have homes." Ackroyd was born in Huntsville, Ont., a few hours drive north of Toronto. His mother was a drug addict, he says, which left Ackroyd and his two younger sisters in and out of group homes. He remains unsure of his father's identity.Ackroyd was in and out of trouble and on and off the streets by the time he was a teenager.
"I didn't know how to get a job or learn anything proper," he says. "I survived the best way I could doing armed robberies, doing B&Es or whatever I had to do to raise money."Ackroyd spent about four years behind bars, mostly during his 20s. He served as an air cadet, worked in the army briefly and took care of homes for a landlord for a spell.
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