[Jets4Life]

In Winnipeg, they had an article about how much money was spent on homeless people, in terms of shelter, food banks, ambulance and police cars and trucks, and overall care in institutions (jail, drunk tanks, psych ward, etc.), and found the 100 worst offenders cost the city something insane like $50,000,000, if I am not mistaken. That's nearly 12 times the annual income of the average citizen.

If it is that costly to attend to people who have slipped through the cracks of our social support system, I definitely think we should be looking at guaranteeing at least a bachelor apartment for every Canadian citizen over the age of 18. It would be cost effective, and safer for the most vulnerable segment of the population, considering the homeless have exponentially higher rates of physical and mental illness, and substance abuse problems, compared to the overall Canadian population.