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COVID-19 and homelessness: Canada

In: Research Handbook on Homelessness

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  • Nick Falvo

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This chapter provides an overview of homelessness in Canada during the pandemic, discussing policy responses and innovations. During COVID-19, Canada’s homelessness sector saw important short-term funding injections from all orders of government, as well as various programmatic innovations. Having said that, a lack of affordable housing and wraparound supports, the overdose crisis and an emerging staffing crisis have created the perfect storm for new homelessness. Indeed, homelessness remains a crisis in Canada. The National Housing Strategy—unveiled in 2017—does little to change this, especially as real estate values rise in major cities.

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  • Nick Falvo, 2024. "COVID-19 and homelessness: Canada," Chapters, in: Guy Johnson & Dennis Culhane & Suzanne Fitzpatrick & Stephen Metraux & Eoin O’Sullivan (ed.), Research Handbook on Homelessness, chapter 21, pages 293-302, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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