Experts say the growth of homeless encampments in Ontario wasn't caused by the pandemic, but COVID did accelerate already existing trends.
Homeless encampments have been multiplying across Ontario since the pandemic, but experts say this visible symptom of the nationalWith limited shelter space, a lack of social housing, increasing cost of home ownership and ballooning rents, more and more people are left with few options but to pitch a tent in a public space.
“These were funded by governments, they were owned by the government, and they were provided at what’s called rent geared to income.” “The majority of the shelters that we know of today were developed through that period of the ’90s and into the 2000s.”At the same time, the responsibility for social housing moved from the federal to the provincial level, and finally to the municipal level. Ontario took over the administration and funding of social housing through an agreement signed. The province then offloaded the responsibility to 47 municipal services managers, according to the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association.
“Affordable housing is offered at usually 70 or 80 per cent of market rent, which of course is more affordable but it’s not as deeply affordable because as rents go up, that number is further and further from the 30 per cent of people’s income.
. As well, landlords subjected to the limit can still apply to the Landlord and Tenant Board for increases above the cap.cost of livingTents in public spaces became more visible in Hamilton and increased in size during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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