Searching for Solutions
As a former mayor of a mid-size city in Canada, I had a first hand account of the rise in social issues facing communities across North America. Searching for Solutions is about examining issues such as the housing crisis, homelessness, mental health, addictions and food insecurity to find disruptive solutions that are having a real impact. Each episode looks at an issue and features a guest that guides us through a problem to a solution. A great resource for people in communities looking how to make a difference at a time when many people are feeling helpless.
Searching for Solutions
Canada's homelessness crisis has a direct connection to lack of housing supply
One of the most pressing issues facing communities across Canada is the increase in people experiencing homelessness. From big cities to small towns, it's no longer possible to not see the impacts of a housing crisis that was years in the making. More than 250,000 people are unhoused in Canada - that is a number that should shock people - and it keeps growing.
On this episode of Searching for Solutions, Tim Richter, CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness puts into perspective how a slow boiling housing crisis has created the conditions that has led to record numbers of Canadians living without shelter. And how a change in mindset and some policy changes at all levels of government can unlock much needed housing to alleviate the homelessness crisis.