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Graffiti of homeless in Quebec City. Homelessness in Canada was not a social problem until the 1980s. [1] The Canadian government housing policies and programs in place throughout the 1970s were based on a concept of shelter as a basic need or requirement for survival and of the obligation of government and society to provide adequate housing for everyone.
In collaboration with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, the COH (then CHRN) released the State of Homelessness in Canada in 2013, what they call the first national report card on homelessness in Canada. The report card stated that 30,000 Canadians are homeless every day, 200,000 in any given year. [6]
The two main causes of homelessness in Vancouver are lack of income and cost of housing. [8] These two factors could be attributed to about 66 percent of Vancouver's homeless population according to a 2005 survey done by the City; however, this decreased to a total of 44 percent by 2008. [8]
Housing First has helped reduce homelessness in places as diverse as Utah and Georgia, as well as cities in Canada and across Europe. But there are also examples of places where Housing First ...
Advocates for homeless people, city officials and academics offered some possible solutions to making homelessness brief, rare and non-repeating.
The solution to homelessness lies in continued investment in affordable housing and permanent supportive housing — not in imposing fines and criminal charges on individuals in encampments for ...
Housing First is an approach that offers permanent, affordable housing as quickly as possible for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, and then provides the supportive services and connections to the community-based supports people need to keep their housing and avoid returning to homelessness.
In a 2014 report by the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and York University, lead author Stephen Gaetz called for direct federal funding for building affordable housing units to respond to homelessness in Canada as the fall budget showed a surplus. Gaetz said that if an extra $46 per Canadian was spent on affordable housing it would ...