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Originally Posted by blankall
When I grew up in Calgary in the 80s, if you were low income you could find a house that EI/welfare/CPP would cover the cost of rent, and maybe you could even buy. If you were desperate, you could find rooms to rent for $200ish/month. There were entire developments full of low income people. I remember doing landscaping work at a townhouse complex in Queensland with nothing but low income housing.
Now that's simply not possible and that low income housing doesn't exist. A lot of these people who were semi employable could get by and still stay off the streets. If you were a roofer, you could work for a few weeks, get your paycheck, bounce, have enough cash for a serious bender, and still maintain a roof over your head. Now it's one slip up, and you aren't coming back.
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I don’t disagree.
I had posted a while back about less taxes for the lowest wage income earners to keep more of the money they earn in their pockets to help them pay for housing.
Some people seem to think that a few extra hundred here and there doesn’t help the low income people, and won’t move the needle on homelessness.
I disagree.
No doubt in my mind that every extra dollar for people on on the verge of homelessness would help.