Mark Carney is not the first prime minister to embrace an ambitious commitment about homelessness. He is not even the first prime minister to do so in the last 10 years.
In 2017, Justin Trudeau’s government released its national housing strategy. As part of a broader plan for housing, the Trudeau government set a goal of reducing “chronic” homelessness by half over the subsequent decade — at the time, an estimated 25,000 people were said to be chronically homeless.
Can you spell slush fund?
Without mandatory substance abuse treatment it’s doomed to fail.
Housing first does not work.
