HOUSING CRISIS IN CANADA by Toni-Lee Danso
Canada continues to face a housing crisis due to a variety of things. This has resulted in many people turning to the parks and streets as their home as well as turning to crime to support their own well-being and make a living. This has also resulted in more people, particularly women, remaining in unsafe homes and situations that they cannot flee because they have nowhere to go. It is important that we understand the cause and effect of the housing crisis to better understand the population we serve and to be compassionate to those who we see struggling with this. Let’s outline a few contributors to the pandemic of housing insecurity. Despite popular belief, the homeless population is not made up of “unsuccessful” people who “don’t want to work”. This is false. I do not have a definite statistic, but a percentage of those who are facing housing insecurity are of the working population or once were full time workers. It only takes ONE thing to change in your life in o...