On June 22, local, provincial, and national experts on housing and homelessness discussed "Drivers of Homelessness: Findings for Action" - a new report authored by the Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria (CSPC) and funded by SPARC-BC.
The report shows how structural factors and systems failures interact with personal crises to drive people towards homelessness. The risk of entering homelessness is widespread; and many households are just one personal crisis away from entering homelessness due to the prevailing structural and systemic conditions. Other key findings show that homelessness prevention works. The large majority of individuals who accessed CSPC programs were at imminent risk of homelessness and would have likely entered homelessness without support.
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