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SOCIAL - FEBRUARY 2024 - HOMELESS SHELTER USE IN TORONTO - Homeless Shelter Use, Toronto

6 Feb 2024

The lines in the graph report the average number of nightly stays in 3000 each quarter, from the first quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2023. [...] The grey line, 2000 1000 which includes singles and family adults, as well as children, shows an increase in the 0 number of overnight stays from an average of 4,158 per night in the fourth quarter of 2016 to an average of 8,892 in the third quarter of 2023. [...] The data report the Prior to 2016, there was very little in the way of either growth or volatility in the total average number of people staying in shelters each night. [...] Since then, housing, the adequacy of income supports, and the potential impact of there’s been a large increase in shelter use, driven first by a dramatic increase in family increased numbers of refugee claimants and asylum seekers residing in shelter use, but more recently by a steady increase in stays by both singles and families. [...] But as The very large and rapid growth in homeless shelter stays has direct implications for the shown in the chart, the rise in family shelter use is variable and it is the use system administrator.

Authors

Robert Falconer, Ron Kneebone and Margarita Wilkins

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1
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Canada