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With 424 housing units per 1,000 people, Canada ranks lowest of the G7 nations [f] in "average housing supply per capita" compared to France, which has 540 units per 1,000—the largest housing supply per capita. Within Canada, the available housing supply inventory is the lowest on record. [81] It reflects a chronic insufficiency of home supply.
Graffiti of homeless in Quebec City. Homelessness in Canada was not a social problem until the 1980s. [1] The Canadian government housing policies and programs in place throughout the 1970s were based on a concept of shelter as a basic need or requirement for survival and of the obligation of government and society to provide adequate housing for everyone.
Temporary housing for those evicted from their apartments in Sörnäinen, Helsinki, Finland in 1924. In the late 19th century, Don Bosco pioneered both the concept that would later become known as Housing First in Italy [citation needed] as well as pioneering the concept that would provide Dorothy Day the basis for her Catholic Worker Movement House of Hospitality founded in 1933.
The Peachtree-Pine shelter in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Homeless shelters are a type of service and total institution that provides temporary residence for homeless individuals and families. Shelters exist to provide residents with safety and protection from exposure to the weather while simultaneously reducing the environmental impact on the ...
In Canada affordability is one of three factors, along with adequacy and suitability, used to determine core housing needs. [13] Canada ranks among the lowest of the most developed countries for housing affordability. [14] Since the 1980s the federal government has played a smaller and smaller role in funding affordable and social housing.
This led to stigmatization of public housing, through pushing the narrative that people living in public housing were "Welfare Queens", or otherwise living in a state of abject poverty and terrible conditions [32]. These demographic changes also decreased support for housing, leading to the government cutting funding for the program [33].
The report found that "[O]ver half a million people go homeless on a single night in the United States" with approximately 65% or 350,000 people living in homeless shelters and 35% – just under 200,000 people – are unsheltered in the streets (living on sidewalks or in parks, cars, or abandoned buildings). [73]
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