Homelessness in Canada

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Homelessness in Canada

What can you do?

If you see a homeless person, you can tell him where the nearest shelter is to seek help

You can also donate canned food to homeless food drives and donate clothes you don't need or want

What you can do is volunteer at homeless shelters nearby. This also will give you your volunteer hours. You can also shine light on homeless to see if anyone would donate money to build a shelter

What is the government doing about it

Committing over $400 million in funding over five years through the Canada-Ontario Investment in Affordable Housing (IAH) Agreement. As of September 2015 under the IAH program, more than 13,400 affordable units are being built and repaired. As well, rental and down payment assistance has been committed to nearly 14,700 households in need across the province.

Investing approximately $1.6 million from the Local Poverty Reduction Fund to support eight homelessness-related projects.

Committing $16 million over three years to create approximately 1,000 supportive housing spaces for people with mental health and addiction issues, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Main topic

Quotes

Poverty is the mother of crime. Marcus Aurelius

More and more people are facing homelessness and housing problems. Adam Sampson

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve. Linda Lingle

How does Homelessness In Canada compare to the rest of the world

About 789743.5 people in every country is homeless

Canada inst a country relativity known for having homeless but this is still a big problem as there still people and no one should be living on this streets

What are the main causes of homelessness

Personal or family crisis

It is estimated that about 41% of marrages end in divorces

Unemployment

6% of Canadians are unemployed

Lack of fordable housing

As the prices of houses increase in Canada this will become a huge problem

Quick facts about homelessness in Canada

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Poverty cost Canada billions annually

Al thought it cost billions, if the homeless people are financially stable, they can get a job

This will increase the overall economy of the country

An estimated 235,000 of people experience homelessness

1 in 7 people live in poverty

All over the globe many "homeless people" pretend to be in a desperate situation but 23% of the worlds homeless are fake and just want the extra money