{"id":3190,"date":"2024-02-27T00:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T00:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2024-02-27T00:45:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T00:45:52","slug":"out-of-control-refugee-intake-fuels-canadas-homeless-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-Control \u201cRefugee\u201d Intake Fuels Canada\u2019s Homeless Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/16722366\/embed\">https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/16722366\/embed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/ottawacitizen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cp169845794.jpg?location=full_width&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=375&amp;sig=Gt5VIGHquqyI8XasQVdL4w\" alt=\"Matthew Grant uses a broom to clean snow off ice fishing enclosures at a tent encampment in front of City Hall in downtown Halifax's Grand Parade square, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew Grant uses a broom to clean snow off ice fishing enclosures at a tent encampment in front of City Hall in downtown Halifax\u2019s Grand Parade square, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. Photo by Darren Calabrese \/The Canadian Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> If we can\u2019t house the, why bring them? Why bring them to cast Canadian poor and homes people out on the streets. A February 24 major article in the National Post entitled \u201cTent City Nation\u201d made the following important observation: \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HOW DID WE GET HERE?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s believed that more people are sleeping rough in this country than at any point since the Great Depression. How did tent encampments suddenly become a fixture of so many of our towns and cities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many things happened at once, among them a pandemic. COVID-19 forced homeless shelters to impose capacity limits to reduce the spread of the infectious disease, which forced many people on the margins into tents and sheds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shelters were already under pressure, in part because of a substantial increase in the number of refugees using their services. The number of people seeking asylum in Canada has spiked in recent years. During the first 11 months of 2023, more than 128,000 people filed asylum claims in this country \u2014 a record number. It\u2019s more than double the number from all of 2019, the year before the pandemic\u2019s outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, in a November letter to two federal cabinet ministers, noted that refugees then occupied 3,900 of the city\u2019s 11,000 shelter spaces \u2014 a 50 per cent increase in just six months \u2014 while another 1,200 refugees were supported outside the shelter system. She asked the government for financial and material aid to help address what she called a \u201cdire\u201d situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShelters are full but demand for shelter continues to increase,\u201d Chow wrote. \u201cEach night, hundreds are turned away because no beds are available. While we have opened hundreds of additional spaces, including dedicated spaces for newly arrived refugees, we cannot keep pace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/16722366\/embed Article content If we can\u2019t house the, why bring them? Why bring them to cast Canadian poor and homes people out on the streets. A February 24 major article in the National Post entitled \u201cTent City Nation\u201d made the following important observation: \u201c HOW DID WE GET HERE? 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