Homelessness Overview
Preventing and managing homelessness and opioid addictions is beyond municipal capacity Homeless encampments are symptoms of deeper system failures that hurt Ontario’s social and economic prosperity. They are the product of decades of successive provincial governments that failed to invest in key areas, including income security, deeply affordable housing, and mental health and addiction supports and services.
The opioid tragedy has significant social and economic impacts on municipalities across Ontario. In addition to its enormous human toll, it has increased financial pressure on key municipal services such as emergency response, homelessness prevention, affordable housing, and public health.
