COVID-19 and homelessness: Canada

Nick Falvo

Chapter 21 in Research Handbook on Homelessness, 2024, pp 293-302 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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