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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 ethnic spread of homeless people in Vancouver is unequal, with Indigenous people and those of European descent making up a large portion of the homeless. Indigenous people make up about 30 percent of Vancouver's homeless population while only comprising 2 percent of the total population of Greater Vancouver, and only 8 percent of the total ...
Research shows that indigenous people, who make up about 5% of the country's population, are disproportionately represented among Canada's homeless. FEATURE-'Death sentence': Indigenous groups ...
However, territories with significant populations often compile their statistics or generate news on homelessness. For example, in Hong Kong in 2017, media reports indicated that 1,800 people were homeless, with the problem mainly attributed to high costs of living.
Thistle published a new definition of Indigenous homelessness in October, 2017. [22] [23] Thistle no longer works directly in the homelessness or housing sectors as he believes since the COVID-19 crisis and opioid crisis the nature of homelessness in Canada has changed to the point that his knowledge is outdated. [24]
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was a royal commission undertaken by the Government of Canada in 1991 to address issues of the Indigenous peoples of Canada. [151] It assessed past government policies toward Indigenous people, such as residential schools, and provided policy recommendations to the government. [ 152 ]
Following in-depth media reports critical on the lack of action on the part of the federal government, a comprehensive study of Indigenous housing in Canada was commissioned resulting in the 1992 report, A Time for Action: Aboriginal and Northern Housing. The report said that about 50% of 70,000 houses on reserve houses were "unfit" as ...