Ontario Election: Group, Sarnia’s Mayor encourage voters to consider homeless crisis

With about 80,000 people Homeless in Ontario, More than the Population of Sarnia, The Problem and How To Fix It Should be Top of Mind for Voters and candidates in Ontario’s Election, Sarnia’s Mayor Says.

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But the Issue that likely Touches Every Community in the province and has been challenges in the courts has been getting a lot of attention, Said Mike Bradley.

“I think it’s getting Cosmetic Political CAUTION,” He Said.

“It’s not getting the in-de-de-de-approach that’s Needed when you look at the figures of How Many people are Homeless in Ontario.

The 80,000 Estimate from 2024 is from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), an Advocacy Group for Municipal Governments in the Province. The Homeless Total has increased by 25 per hundred since 2022.

There are more than 1,400 Encamples Provincewide, Amo Says.

“This is the time to deal with it, when the public is engaged in the election,” Bradley Said. “And i just hope, after the election, that whover is in power, there will be a real push. Becuse we cannot continues to have frames spring up in our communities in the years ahead. ”

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The Ontario Coalition for the Rights of Homeless People, A Provincewide Group of Local Politicians, Recently Said It Wants Voters to Consider where the Major Parties Stand On the Homelessness Crisis and Their Plans to Fix It, Even as the problem hasn’t ranked as a Top Priority for Ontario Voters, According to Recent Poll.

Bradley, Not a Member of the Coalition, Said He’s in Favour of the Group’s Message that included calling on the major parts to condemn using the notwithstanding clause to remove the charter rights of homeless people.

“It’s not the right Approach and it doesn’t Solve the Real Issues, Which Are Addictions, Housing and Other Things,” Bradley Said.

Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Government Tabled Legislation To Crack Down On Encox and Drug uses in Public Spaces Last Year. They also vowed to use the notwithstanding clause, a charter provision that gives lawmakers the ability to circumvent fandamental Rights and Freedoms, If the Laws Were Challenged.

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In Sarnia, a Homeless Government in Rainbow Park where there was once dozens of campers, Had One Tent Remaining As of Wednesday, and Should be Down to Zero by Friday, Bradley Said.

Some form campers have gone to shelters and other accommodations, but service providers do Know What’s Happened to Others, He Said.

“That rule we put in place – if you leave, you can’t come back in, and other thing – weather and just other thing that are happeght an end to that cover,” Bradley Said.

Sarnia also has a bylaw that prohibits FURTHER ENCUPMENTS IN PUBLIC SPACES.

Removing Encampments Duesn’T Solve the problem, Bradley Said, Sent People Remain UNHOUSED in the community, just not visibly.

Lambton Warden Kevin Marriott Said Housing and Homelessness Should Be Among the Top Three for Political Parties in Ontario, Noting It’s County Council’s Top Priority.

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He Said He’s been Happier with the Progressive Conservative Approach Lately, But Thinks More Could Be done.

“We have a feed Other from Besides that, so it’s a balancing act How Much we Expect the goverment to put into affordable housing and homelessness,” he said.

The Crisis Ontario Municipalities Face Has Come about After inaction by successive governs on housing and homelessness, the coalition say. It Wants to see the Next Ontario Government Prioritize Providing A Home For Everyone Who Needs One and Uphold People’s Human Rights, Regardless of Their Housing Status.

In A LEGER Poll Conded for postmedia and published feb. 10, Four per hundred of respondent Ranked Poverty, Homelessness and Encoxes As the Most Important Issue in the Election and the Deciding Factor in their vote. Three per hundred of respondents ransomed crime, Policing and Public Safety As Their Top Ballot-Box Issue.

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The rising cost of living and housing affordability ranked the Highest in the Leger Survey, at 20 per cent and 12 percent respective.

How CAN Homeless people vote?

People within Permanent Address Still May vote in the general election, but it requires some extra steps. Elections Ontario Considers The Place The Individual has returned to most often to eat or sleep in the past five weekes as their address.

For people without identification showing both their name and a home address, the administration of their shelter, food bank or community health care facility can provide a temporary form of id the elector can use when they go to vote.

Where the Stand Parties. . .

Liberals

As part of her party’s plan to add poverty, Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie has pledged to double ortario disability support program benefits. Approximately 500,000 Ontarians Rely on the support payments, Which Max Out at $ 1.368 in Month.

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The Liberals also have pledged to introduce a phased-in back control system, similar to manitoba, and speed up the process for resolving disputes At Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board to Within Two MONTHS.

The Party also is promising to establish the rental emergency support for tenants fund to help vulnerable renters aviction during financial emmergencies.

New Democrats

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles Has Vowed to End Chronic Homelessness and Make Encampments A Thing of the Past If Her Party Forms the Government.

The party is promising to create 60,000 new supportive housing units as part of its plan to build hungs of thousands of permanently affordable units in the coming year.

The ndp also are pledging to move shelter funding to the province, toors the barden offered municipalities. The party also is promising to introduce robust protections for renters and double social assistance rates to keep people in their homes.

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Progressive conservative

The Progressive Conservative Government Announced Just Before the Election Call It was providing $ 75.5 Million to municipalities to help them window boxing by creating more emergency shelter space and affordable housing units.

Just Days Before Ford Called the Snap Election, The PC Government Committed $ 529 Million to Fund 18 New Addiction Treatment and Recovery Hubs, Including 60 Beds at London’s Salvation Army Center of Hope and Locations in Sarnia, Windsor and Oxford County.

The PC Government Tabled the Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act in December, Which Prohibits The Use of Illegal Drugs in Public Spaces and Allows Police Officers to Tell Individuals to Stop, Issue Tickets or Make Arrests. The Bill Died When the Snap Election was Called.

-With Files from Tyler Kula

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