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Ontario’s ‘unofficial estimate’ of homeless population is 234,000: documents (www.thetrillium.ca)

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The government of Ontario estimates nearly a quarter of a million people — roughly three of every 200 residents — are homeless, according to information contained in a housing ministry document.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

The new “unofficial estimate” of 234,000 homeless people is almost 1.5 per cent of Ontario’s population of about 16 million. If accurate, it would mean that for every 10,000 people in Ontario, nearly 150 are homeless — nine times more than the auditor general calculated.

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