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Originally Posted by WayneShuster
You are free to believe whatever you want, but I trust my sources. This is occurring based on soft government policies and lack of enforcement. It's easier to get welfare benefits in Manitoba than in most other provinces apparently. The amount of people on welfare living in Manitoba from out of province is an issue. They come for the welfare, plain and simple. Totally mind boggling. Again, the system is broken and needs fixing asap.
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According to the detailed survey of the homeless in Winnipeg less than two years ago, half had always lived in Winnipeg, and a quarter somewhere else in Manitoba.
There's a myth that major cities seeing a growing number of homeless people because they've mostly been shipped in from somewhere else. Surveys of the homeless generally don't find that to be true for the majority of the homeless. In Vancouver, for example, the 2025 survey found "75% of people were in the community they reside when their most recent experience of homelessness started". Similarly, the Edmonton survey in 2024 found "a significant majority of respondents (81.4%) reported living in Edmonton for more than three years, indicating long-term connection to Edmonton among people experiencing homelessness".
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