What Calgary's 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness Taught Us (and What Comes Next)

What Calgary's 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness Taught Us (and What Comes Next)

If you had walked into a downtown-Calgary shelter in the early 2000s, you would have seen a crisis peaking. Overcrowded facilities, long waitlists and growing encampments told a story of a city grappling with a sharp rise in homelessness. In 1992, Calgary’s first-ever “point-in-time count” — an estimate of people experiencing homelessness in a community done through a single night’s count — recorded almost 450 people experiencing homelessness. B…