One walk around Canada’s urban centres is enough to understand that homelessness is a national emergency.
On any given night, up to 30,000 people in our country are homeless.
Shelters, for all their value, are essentially a band-aid solution to the problem, and ‘raising awareness’ does little to actually get people off the street. So the Canadian Alliance To End Homelessness (CAEH) is stepping up in a major way, pledging to house 20,000 of Canada’s most vulnerable homeless citizens – those with complex needs and at risk of death from homelessness – by the year 2020.