Canada will provide significant assistance to homeless people
The government is investing more than CAD 5 million to address homelessness issues.
Canada believes that everyone deserves a safe and stable place to call home. However, in communities across the country, there are so many Canadians facing homelessness. The Government of Canada understands its responsibility and feels obligated to help homeless people solve their problems.
This week, Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Ahmed Hussen announced a CAD 5.3 million investment to support 12 projects under the Community Capacity and Innovation program, part of the Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness strategy. This investment is aimed at building the capacity of the homelessness sector and reducing and preventing homelessness.
Through the Community Capacity and Innovation program, Leadership Canada plans to provide communities across the country with the tools, support, technical assistance and training they need to implement the Reaching Home strategy and address homelessness using a more modern, coordinated, systemic and data-driven approach. Community Capacity and Innovation (CCI) is also funding a collaboration of Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations to address Indigenous homelessness using a culturally sensitive approach.
"The Government of Canada is committed to reducing homelessness and is taking bold steps towards tangible change. Through these 12 initiatives that have received funding under the CCI, communities and the homeless-serving sector will receive vital tools, supports, and assistance, empowering them to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those experiencing homelessness. Although considerable progress has been made, we will continue to work with our partners to tackle chronic homelessness across the country," Hussein shared during the announcement.
Among the 12 projects, each of which has received hundreds of thousands in investment, are organizations scattered across Canada that provide homelessness assistance, analyze homelessness, compile statistics, work to ensure that formerly homeless people do not return to their old lives, and do other work to help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, as well as dig deep into the problem and look for solutions. By investing in CCI projects, the Government of Canada continues to seek innovative solutions to homelessness in the country.
