Fifty percent of respondents felt their housing situation was unstable

Fifty percent of respondents felt their housing situation was unstable

A finalized rural homelessness report—undertaken by the Alberta Rural Development Network—has been made available to the City of Wetaskiwin stated the city in a press release June 18.

In partnership with the Family and Community Support Services Association of Alberta, the Alberta Rural Development Network led a province-wide effort to estimate homelessness in rural communities in Alberta. Funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy, the Rural Homelessness Estimation Project is an initiative which facilitated homelessness data collection in 20 communities across rural Alberta over a three-month period in fall 2018. The City of Wetaskiwin was one of the participating communities.

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