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Analysis of data by FactCheck Toronto and the Sustainability Clinic at Osgoode Hall Law School showed that between Oct. 30 and Feb. 28, at least 13,780 callers were unable to access a shelter bed. Manager of the Toronto Drop-In Network, Susan Bender, claimed that on average, 38 people a day were unable to access shelter space.
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.
Solutions to social and health problems cannot be a condition for organising accommodation: on the contrary, accommodation is a requirement which also allows other problems of people who have been homeless to be solved. Having somewhere to live makes it possible to strengthen life management skills and is conducive to purposeful activity.
People can’t address their problems if they don’t have a roof over their heads “It's based on the incredibly basic idea that homelessness — as the name implies — is about the lack of a home.
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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]
Someone Lives Here is a 2023 Canadian documentary film, directed by Zack Russell. [1] The film profiles Khaleel Seivwright, a carpenter who has launched a project of building small private shelters for homeless people in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the bureaucratic resistance of the city government.
The largest study in decades of California's homelessness crisis finds that older seniors priced out of housing are now a substantive share of those living on the streets.