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Over 80,000 were homeless in Ontario in 2024, up at least 25% since 2022: AMO
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We can't just keep throwing money at help groups in hopes that will magically solve homelessness, we need to address the economic factors pushing people there, the high and ever increasing costs of living. From a ponzi scheme housing market to ever increasing groccery costs, people are being priced out of their apartments and homes.
We need to invest in affordable housing and transit, we need to break up the groccery cartels that keep getting away with price fixing, we need to slow immigration to ease the pressure on rental units, we need to rework the temporary foreign worker programs to be less exploitative which would open up more low skill jobs available to homeless populations.
But our governments don't want to do any of that because it hurts their sweet sweet profits and the oligarch shareholders. Best they can offer is some cash for local outreach groups that often don't have the resources to make meaningful change (at least compared to the reaources available to governments).
Solving a problem at its root cause is usually better than trying to fix the consequences of those causes. Just helping the homeless without addressing what pushes people to homelessness would be a never ending cycle of providing aid to new people pushed into homelessness