[homeles_ot-l] New survey confirms urbanites favour housing as solution to homelessness FW: [nhhn-can] Wellesley backgrounder

[Lynne Browne]

FYI

Lynne Browne 
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
613-241-7913 x 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 

 

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From: Michael Shapcott [mailto:Michael at wellesleyinstitute.com] 
Sent: June 7, 2007 2:34 PM
To: nhhn-can at povnet.org; hhno-on at povnet.org
Subject: [nhhn-can] Wellesley backgrounder: New survey confirms urbanites
favour housing as solution to homelessness

 

Growing homelessness is a high priority for a majority of people living in
seven of Canada’s larger cities.

 

Affordable housing is the best way to end homelessness.

 

Well over one-third of urbanites say that governments are doing a poor or
very poor job dealing with homelessness, while less than one-quarter say
that politicians are doing a good or very good job.

 

Those are three of the key results from the Canada West Foundation, a
Calgary-based policy institute, which recently surveyed the residents of
Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Toronto on
“urban social challenges”.

 

>From the May 25, 2007, press release announcing the release of the survey:

 

“The Canada West Foundation today released a public opinion survey which
shows that the majority of urbanites in western Canada and Toronto rate
reducing homelessness as a high priority. The most popular ways to address
homelessness, according to the survey's respondents, are increased
affordable housing and increased programs and services for homeless people
rather than more shelter beds.”

 

A full copy of the report is available at HYPERLINK
"http://www.cwf.ca/V2/cnt/release_200705241636.php"http://www.cwf.ca/V2/cnt/
release_200705241636.php

 

- Michael

 

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Michael Shapcott, Senior Fellow

The Wellesley Institute

45 Charles Street East, #101

Toronto, ON., Canada M4Y 1S2

Tel. - 416-972-1010, x231

Mobile - 416-605-8316

Fax - 416-921-7228

www.wellesleyinstitute.com

 


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