"Number of homeless #ODSP, #OW recipients in Ontario surges 72% since 2019: report
Province says it has 'taken historic action to make life more affordable for #Ontario families' in response"
The Province Is Lying!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Mitchell Tremblay (ODSPoor)
"As of July 2025, more than 30,000 people on Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) were experiencing homelessness – an increase of 72 per cent since July 2019."
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Mitchell Tremblay (ODSPoor)
Proof to back up what advocates have been saying #OntarioWorks and #ODSP dangerously low, twice below the poverty line, 1/3 of market rent... its killing us while the premier vilifies us, mayors criminalize us and feds ignore the deaths of citizens frozen to the curb.
maytree.com/publications...
Ontario’s social assistance system is fuelling the homelessness crisis. Inadequate rates and punitive shelter benefit rules are driving people onto the streets.
