Hard-to-house’ weak link in effort to end homelessness in Edmonton, report says – CBC

The dark side of all this is the fact that we have not looked after these people’

Feb 21, 2017

Edmonton is nearing the end of its 10-year plan to end homelessness, but a solution to the problem remains a distant reality.

A new report called “Addressing Hard-to-House Homeless Population” shows Edmonton has built less than a third of the supportive housing units the plan called for in 2007.

Now nine years into the initiative, 213 housing units have been built of an estimated 1,000 needed to fill the demand.

In October, a city-wide “point in time” count uncovered about 1,750 homeless people living on Edmonton streets.

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/homeless-edmonton-bissell-centre-scott-mckeen-1.3991563