Opinion: We have a homelessness emergency in every part of Ontario. It is time for the Ford government to tackle Ontario’s homelessness crisis.
The homelessness crisis in Ontario is not just an unfortunate situation. It is the outcome of decades of policy decisions and poor choices made by successive Ontario governments.
No matter where you live in Ontario — in cities or towns, large or small, or in rural and northern communities, you have witnessed this explosion in homelessness. Ontario municipalities are unique in Canada in that they pay all or part of the costs of a range of health and social services such as public health and social housing.
It is a provincial legacy whose inevitable outcome is an explosion in homelessness, food bank reliance, and untreated health and mental health conditions. It’s bad social policy and bad economic policy with a high price paid for emergency room visits, police services, and costly shelter services. Not to mention the costs in lost economic participation and productivity.
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