Pandemic, hot housing market fuel homelessness in rural Elgin County
An Elgin County health agency is hoping to tackle the growing homelessness crisis in rural communities amid increasing demand for its services. An Elgin County health agency is hoping to tackle the growing homelessness crisis in rural communities amid increasing demand for its services. Advertisement Article content West Elgin Community Health Centre is serving more […]
Saskatoon prepares bylaw to allow temporary shelters amid rising homelessness
The City of Saskatoon is preparing a bylaw to allow temporary shelters for people otherwise living on the streets over the winter. “This is a very urgent situation and we do need to build better solutions so that people have safe, affordable housing here in our community in all seasons,” Mayor Charlie Clark said. The River is […]
Nova Scotia pledges $10M to support people experiencing homelessness
Money will go to non-profits, mental health support over 2 years The Nova Scotia government is promising just over $10 million to help support people who are experiencing homelessness, coinciding with a new housing strategy released Wednesday. According to a news release from the Department of Community Services, the provincial government will invest $10.1 million over […]
London, Ontario golf courses one step closer to being used as temporary winter homeless shelters
The city housed people last winter in the core but staff have a new plan this year London’s Community and Protective Services Committee has endorsed the idea to use two of the city’s golf courses as locations for temporary shelters this winter for people experiencing homelessness. The decision came after a long debate by councillors Tuesday regarding […]
‘Enough is enough’: Group gathers to raise awareness about people facing homelessness on P.E.I.
‘I slept outside three days ago and I woke up with icicles on my feet’ People raising awareness around those facing homelessness on P.E.I. gathered outside the legislature on Friday afternoon. “There’s funding going on for everything but for homelessness, and a lot of us are sleeping on the streets, some even dying,” says Daniel […]
Homelessness in Chatham-Kent has nearly doubled in three years
Homelessness in Chatham-Kent has nearly doubled over the years. On October 19, Chatham-Kent municipal staff, along with several volunteers from local organizations, completed an enumeration by counting how many homeless individuals there were in Chatham-Kent. According to the municipality, 171 individuals were identified as being homeless on the night of October 19, which is a […]
Homeless Canadians take good care of their pets, study says
Homeless people’s pets are well taken care of, a new study that examined the health of pets in Winnipeg and four Ontario cities has determined. The study, led by researchers at Guelph University, found the pets of homeless or vulnerably housed Canadians are just as healthy as other populations of owned pets — in some […]
What if we treat homelessness like a pandemic?
COVID-19 outbreaks in shelters and other effects of the virus forced more people to sleep rough — on sidewalks, under bridges, in encampments — making homelessness more visible. People experiencing homelessness were disproportionately impacted and five times more likely to die of COVID-19. Stephen Gaetz, director of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, asks “What if […]
Rural Canada’s ‘visible homelessness’ problem driven by pandemic, high cost of housing
‘We’re seeing more tent encampments pop up,’ says manager with Communities Ending Poverty Stephanie Elliott and Allison George are right on the edge, not knowing if they’ll spend this winter housed or in a tent. They live in Goderich, Ont., a small town north of London with postcard-worthy views of Lake Huron and a hot housing […]
A look at the challenging task of counting Canada’s homeless veterans
Dan Campbell and Benjamin Van Eck were fast friends while serving in 2 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. The pair were “Stuck at the hip,” as Campbell describes it, during months of training and a deployment to Afghanistan in 2007 where they served on the same gun. “We didn’t have the best upbringing and we basically […]
