Tim Richter πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Profile picture
President & CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness @CAEHomelessness. Tweets are my own.
Apr 1, 2019 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 4 min read
THREAD This likely won't make the news, but the Feds quietly released their new homelessness strategy Reaching Home today.

This is the biggest change in federal #homelessness policy in over 30 years.

The best part is - it is already working #cdnpoli

newswire.ca/news-releases/… 2/ Reaching Home represents a paradigm shift in federal policy that will transform how communities respond to homelessness. Key changes include a focus on real-time person-specific data, coordinated access systems and a homelessness reduction outcome canada.ca/en/employment-…
Dec 14, 2018 β€’ 14 tweets β€’ 9 min read
THREAD The mass homelessness we're seeing in Toronto & Canada is without question a disaster. It's a disaster on the same scale - or bigger - then most of the biggest natural disasters in Canadian history. So what would happen if we treated it as such? bit.ly/2Qts7dW 1/ 1st let's look at the scale of #homelessness. It happens to at least 235,000 Canadians per year, 35,000 every night and costs $7 BILLION per year. It kills an unknown number of people & reduces life expectancy for thousands. homelessmemorials.com/memorial/ 2/