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Originally Posted by Changing City
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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That seems to mesh with the stories when the news digs into the issues.
I have to wonder how many of the homeless and mentally ill come from the "upscale" parts of each city? Yet the services for them always seem to be central/downtown. In Hamilton, gods forbid that a large homeless centre be located in Ancaster.
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