You can’t #stayhome if you have no home – Macleans.ca
In quiet neighbourhoods all over Canada, families are sheltering at home alone, refusing to give the Coronavirus a chance to spread. But tens of thousands don’t have that option.
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Canada’s policy time bomb: Rising home prices and homelessness
In a new eye-popping national study on homelessness for the Ottawa Mission, a majority of Canadians reported that someone they cared about was at risk of being homeless. Only 35 per cent of respondents reported no one they cared for was at risk of being homeless (43 per cent reported a small risk, 15 per cent a medium risk, and five per cent a high risk). When you walk down the street in your neighbourhood, one in five of your neighbours have someone they care about and think that person may have a high or medium risk of being homeless.
The same study suggests that a majority of Canadians believe that the issue of homelessness will have a serious or somewhat serious impact on Canada as a country. If you live in the hot real estate market of British Columbia or you are a woman, this sentiment rises to eight in ten.
Canada’s Brutal Decade of Homelessness
In Windsor, Christine Wilson-Furlonger, a long-time outreach worker with a local outreach organization called Street Help,
reports that homeless people are forced to hide in wooded areas. The
city does not tolerate tent encampments. The organization’s outreach
workers frequently help house families with young children when a
family’s motel or shelter is cancelled.
reports that homeless people are forced to hide in wooded areas. The
city does not tolerate tent encampments. The organization’s outreach
workers frequently help house families with young children when a
family’s motel or shelter is cancelled.
Moncton has taken a zero tolerance policy toward tenting. The city
removed an encampment this spring, displacing approximately 80 people
who dispersed and are now living outside, less protected from violence
or injury. Similar reports are common across the Maritimes.
More than 5,000 households are on the waiting list for subsidized
housing in New Brunswick. In Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton, 500
people are currently homeless.