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With summer approaching, the City of Saskatoon says public access to washrooms and drinking water is limited in Riversdale and Pleasant Hill. Frontline workers says the city needs to open up facilities to help a growing number of homeless people.

Illicit drug use in public is on the rise, but police and front-line workers say decriminalization or not, health and safety in communities won't improve without solving core issues such as homelessness.

The Saskatchewan government made a series of funding announcements Friday, with a combined total of almost $90 million going to combat homelessness, and address mental health and addictions in the province. Community groups say it is not enough.

Though the latest federal budget includes a focus on housing affordability, some Saskatchewan residents and housing advocates say it doesn't meet the mark on solving homelessness and a mounting housing crisis.

The Financial Consumer Affairs Authority is investigating the Epic Alliance group of companies in Saskatoon after millions went missing after its collapse.

Saskatoon landlords and advocates say changes to Saskatchewan's social assistance program are fuelling a worsening homelessness crisis in the city.