November 30, 2021
CBC News
Ontario
Chris Ensing
Windsor-Essex sees significant rise in people homeless for at least 6 months
There’s been a 27 per cent increase in the number of people homeless on any given night in the city of Windsor compared to 2018, according to a new report to be reviewed by the Community Services and Parks Standing Committee on Wednesday.
The report, based off a Point in Time Count completed over a 24-hour period in March, details a significant rise in chronic homelessness and continued overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the city’s homeless population.
City staff are recommending that council lobby higher levels of government to acknowledge homelessness as a crisis and spend more money on housing and homelessness programs in addition to mental health and addiction services.