SOCWORK 2B03 Lecture Notes - Welfare, Consumerism, Welfare Fraud
4 Mar 2014
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Poverty and homelessness are different yet the same. Starting in the 1980s it was clear that homelessness referred to a poverty that includes being unhoused. It is a poverty that means being without required social supports. And it is poverty so deep that even poor-quality housing is not affordable. Canada has aways had many people living in poverty. In the 1980s more and more people were not only poor, but also found themselves unhoused. Deep poverty leads to homelessness homeless people are always poor, poor people aren"t always homeless. To meet a minimum standard of living people need three things: The more the government pays attention to income, the less radical it needs to be in housing policies. If they aren"t paying attention to income realities then there is homelessness and they have to address this. It costs more to shelter someone in a homeless shelter for the night than to address poverty before it reaches homelessness.
