'Perfect storm' of inflation, high prices driving more into homelessness: advocates yyc
Chaz Smith, who was once homeless himself, said some of the clients of his BeTheChangeYYC street outreach group have been on waiting lists for affordable housing for more than five months.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Before they reached the end of the block, they were surrounded by a group of about 80 peoplewaiting to be handed food and warmer clothing. “That’s the scary part,” he said. “I talked to quite a few people who are new to homelessness and you know right away because they’re asking you, ‘where are the shelters?’ They haven’t heard of the housing list and so you ask them, ‘where are you from?”‘Article content
He said there was already an affordable housing shortage, but there are also the lingering effects of the pandemic, the higher cost of living and the opioid crisis. “The increase in Alberta is really just a perfect storm of low wages, loss of wages, high housing prices, high prices for food and fuel and utilities and all of that coming together at a time when the world was kind of collapsing down on top of us,” said Arianna Scott, the CEO of Food Banks Alberta.
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