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Addressing homelessness should be considered nation-building project: big city mayors
Mayors say more federal funding is needed to scale supportive housing and prevention measures that could help cut chronic homelessness in half.
- On Thursday in Edmonton, big city mayors urged Ottawa to prioritize homelessness as a nation-building project, with Federation of Canadian Municipalities chair Josh Morgan calling for $3.5 billion in annual federal funding.
- Municipal leaders argue that while local solutions like supportive housing exist, current funding levels cannot sustain necessary impact; Morgan urged Ottawa to match 1970s-1980s social housing investment levels.
- Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada stated the crisis affects all downtowns, citing more than 3,000 people experiencing homelessness in Edmonton and at least 1,200 in Winnipeg.
- Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson's spokesperson Mohammad Hussain stated Ottawa aims to build on Reaching Home, which placed more than 112,000 people into stable housing and provided services to over 203,000.
- Beyond homelessness, the big city caucus requested increased grant funding to address organized crime and a doubling of allocations under the Build Communities Strong Fund for the next federal budget.
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Mayors of major Canadian cities believe that the fight against homelessness should also be considered by Ottawa as a national construction project, along with major infrastructure and energy projects.
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They felt that the fight against homelessness should be a national priority for Ottawa, as should energy and infrastructure projects.
·Montreal, Canada
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Total News Sources30
Leaning Left23Leaning Right0Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution88% Left
Bias Distribution
- 88% of the sources lean Left
88% Left
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