Alberta announced $23M for homelessness but no actual homes
Yesterday, the Alberta government announced $23 million toward initiatives to help organizations working with unhoused people.
The catch, however, is that none of it will go toward actually addressing the root cause of homelessness: not having a home.
This funding will cover 4 main areas.
A majority of the funding—$13 million—will be focused on helping 14 homeless shelters in 11 communities throughout the province expand their facilities to meet physical distancing requirements. Shelters may be able to also use funding to provide meals, showers, laundry and connection to other services (such as addiction and mental health), but there were no detail on how groups could access funding for those services.
Read more about this announcement in today’s story on Kim Siever News.
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