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Ontario’s ‘unofficial estimate’ of homeless population is 234,000: documents (www.thetrillium.ca)

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The government of Ontario estimates nearly a quarter of a million people — roughly three of every 200 residents — are homeless, according to information contained in a housing ministry document.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

The new “unofficial estimate” of 234,000 homeless people is almost 1.5 per cent of Ontario’s population of about 16 million. If accurate, it would mean that for every 10,000 people in Ontario, nearly 150 are homeless — nine times more than the auditor general calculated.

Fuck.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If all these people were in one place, it would be Ontario's 10th largest city -- bigger than:

Barrie Guelph Kanata Kingston Milton Brantford Thunder Bay Sudbury Peterborough Belleville Sarnia Welland - Pelham Sault Ste. Marie Bowmanville - Newcastle North Bay etc...

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Don't give Ford any ideas

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I live close to downtown Toronto. When last I passed by a large-ish park close to me a couple weeks ago there appeared to be about 2 dozen tents of people living in the park