#homelessnes

[charliejaneanders]

The presumption from those that want an enforcement approach [to unhoused people] only is that if you make it uncomfortable — as we’ve heard from our district attorney — enough for people, they’ll leave. I hate to break it to people, but some of these people are part of the community.

Mission Local interviews San Francisco District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder about homelessness and other issues

[mysharona1987]

[barleysinger]

Having a real safety net costs less than not having a real safety net. If conservatives really were pragmatic and ‘good with money’ they’d be all over the idea of every nation having a solid social safety net.

[theleftycanadianradical]

Seniors cut off from income supplement after receiving emergency benefits

New Democrats say they've have been flooded with calls from Canadians aged 65 and up who suddenly find themselves cut off from monthly gover

The Canadian Liberal government is clawing back pensions from seniors on low incomes who collected CERB/CRB in the pandemic. Detailed here, now some can't make their rent and are facing the threat of homelessness. Please, tell me how left-leaning and bleeding heart, our Liberals are.

[themancorialist]

Market Street, Manchester.

[onpoli]

Of the 102,000 households on the city’s wait-list for subsidized housing, just 56 per cent are confirmed to be eligible and active, Toronto’s auditor general Beverly Romeo-Beehler concludes in a new report.

Despite that Toronto has at least 1,400 empty units, the bulk in TCH buildings and among those in public housing 140 were being used by contractors and for storage and programming throughout TCH buildings, based on an audit of city systems.

Auditor general Beverly Romeo-Beehler also concluded that outdated systems, a lack of cross-agency communication and innovation means the city could, but is not, providing subsidized housing for at least 2,200 more people.

Included in the audit findings: People in emergency shelters were not given top priority for available housing, just over half the people on the centralized wait-list actually qualified for the programs and lost rental supplements cost the city $7 million last year. 

The number of people who are not being considered as truly homeless because they listed a homeless shelter as their address is over 3,000. Roughly half of them could be housed right away in these empty TCH units if this careless error was corrected.

[seaofhazel]

God I need money rn please help

[sataniccapitalist]

Study Reveals It Costs Less to Give the Homeless Housing Than to Leave Them on the Street

One city saved more than $25,000 per person per year.