10/29/2015
As part of the renewed Poverty Reduction Strategy, the provincial government committed to ending chronic homelessness in Ontario. Yesterday, the government released “A Place to Call Home”, the final report of their Expert Advisory Panel on Homelessness. The report describes the complexity of the problem and outlines a number of recommendations, including some that propose local action by municipal governments and District Social Service Administration Boards (DSSABs). One example is to conduct an enumeration of local homeless populations. The Province is committing to a number of immediate and long-term actions in response to the report. Most significantly, the government announced that it would set a target to end chronic homelessness in ten years. In addition, the following immediate next steps will be taken: