Comments by "Vaska Tumir" (@vaska1999) on "Encampments a symptom of deeper failings: Edmonton city councillor" video.
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​​ @TheTimbo911 It took me about 20 seconds to ascertain that the estimate for the number of homeless comes from a CityTV article.
"Currently, estimates by the Homeless Hub, a research organization run by York University, peg the number of people experiencing homelessness in Canada somewhere between 150,000 to 300,000.(opens in a new tab) By 2030, the AI predicts the population of people experiencing homelessness to grow to about 550,000 to 570,000."
The number of vacant homes comes from an OECD report from 2019. Cited by ReMax Real Estate company and reported widely by our media:
"Canada has one of the highest numbers of vacant homes in the world. The OECD’s latest data shows 1.34 million homes were vacant, or about 8.7% of the country’s 15.41 million homes in total. That works out to nearly 1 in 12 homes, or 6 years of housing supply at the average construction rate from 2016 to 2019. Canada has the fifth most vacant homes of the group of advanced economies."
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