Government Report: Non-Indigenous Canadians and Canadian Cities

government report: Last year's federally organized point-in-time homeless count found 5,954 people living in shelters, on the street or in transitional facilities, says the report released Thursday, according to CTV. Indigenous people, long over-represented among the homeless, were nine times more likely to be homeless than non-indigenous Canadians, the report found. A new federal government report is shedding more light on the problem in 32 Canadian cities, exposing a need for a targeted approach to help vulnerable populations like veterans, indigenous people, and recent immigrants. Veterans comprised about five per cent, twice their proportion of the general population. Recent immigrants and refugees accounted for four per cent of those counted, with women and girls in that category more than twice as likely than non-immigrants to cite domestic abuse as a cause of their homelessness. The count also found entire families of homeless -- mostly single parents with children -- and people aged 16 to almost 80. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.