Many people think homelessness is rare and only touches certain kinds of individuals. However, it is far more common than people believe and it touches almost every …show more content…
The main cause being the rising cost of housing and the obselete rent system still in place. According to Old Brewery Mission, chronic homelessness costs $1.1 billion dollars to Canada every year, because inappropriate housing is linked to other problematics such as the rise in crime levels. Thus, it affects the carceral system, where overcrowding is already an issue. Also, the rent system in place is obselete. The government of Quebec should have the power and the resources in place to further lower the cost of cheap housing. This would allow the economically disadvantaged to free themselves from the circle which ultimately leads to homelessness. They should also build housing flats and subsidize local investment into poor communities to completely eliminate this condition. The best example of this is in Russia, where, during the communist era, the Soviet government built thousands and thousands of low-cost housing flats in nearly every city. By doing so, the government and the other aformentioned institutions could focus their money and their resources into other projects, which would leave everyone better off. Previously homeless people could reenter the community and become useful workers again, which would spare the government of this economic