The committee exists to advise, to shape and to coordinate community responses to homelessness, and related needs in the Niagara Region. The report represents the most definitive review to date of the issue of homelessness in Niagara. The lack of affordable housing is at the root of homelessness, he said, and it undermines society because it accepts that excluding some is normal. Last year, Toronto developers constructed 7,894 new condo units, adding to the 7,446 built in 1999. But only 30 ne w apartment units were built last year.
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Affordable housing needed now - Canada's deepening housing crisis cripples efforts to uplift children from poverty. The fastest growing group of Canadians needing emergency shelters is families with children. No wonder the mayors of Canada's biggest cities have declared homelessness to be a national disaster.