Carney's budget tackles homelessness. Will it work?
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Carney's budget tackles homelessness. Will it work?

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 11, 202624 min
  • About Canada

Ottawa is pledging to end homelessness within ten years, and is investing tens of billions of dollars to do so. The investment will manifest across several housing and healthcare initiatives, including $2 billion for mental health and addictions infrastructure, a new Centre for Mental Health and Addictions in Winnipeg, as well as renewing the Canada Housing Benefit. Besides the investment, the promise requires heavy buy-in from provinces and territories. Host Caryn Ceolin speaks to Steve Pomeroy, industry professor at McMaster University with the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative. The discuss what sets this plan apart fro...

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nearly $30 billion, not just for housing, but for social supports.

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But making a meaningful dent in the number of homeless won't merely be measured by

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Frequency Podcast Network. Stories that matter. Podcasts that resonate. The Carney government's latest budget aims to put Canada on a path to end homelessness within a decade. It starts with people who are just getting by and something goes wrong. A lost job, a

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family breakdown, an illness, an addiction. Or often, several blows come all at once. And when the systems that are meant to help can't cope, people fall through. And for too many, homelessness doesn't end quickly. It's an ambitious promise, one we've heard before from other levels of government, committing

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nearly $30 billion, not just for housing, but for social supports. The federal government estimates at least 65,000 people in this country are unhoused. But making a meaningful dent in the number of homeless won't merely be measured by the number of units that are built.

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