People: Substance Abuse and Non-Indigenous Canadians

people: Indigenous people, long over-represented among the homeless, were nine times more likely to be homeless than non-indigenous Canadians, the report found, according to Brandon Sun. Veterans comprised about five per cent, twice their proportion of the general population. 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. The count also found entire families of homeless mostly single parents with children and people aged 16 to almost 80. While addiction and substance abuse was often cited as a cause for those under 65, financial problems, such as being unable to pay the rent, was a prominent cause among seniors, the report found. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.