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An Alberta city has become the first in the country to have ended chronic homelessness, just as municipal leaders push the federal government to help do the same countrywide.
OTTAWA - An Alberta city has become the first in the country to have ended chronic homelessness, just as municipal leaders push the federal government to help do the same countrywide.
Group says Medicine Hat has ended chronic homelessness, as cities eye same nationwide
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Jun 2, 2021 at 11:28 am EDT
OTTAWA An Alberta city has become the first in the country to have ended chronic homelessness, just as municipal leaders push the federal government to help do the same countrywide.
Medicine Hat first said in 2015 that it had ended homelessness in its city, but that was based on its own standards because none existed nationally at the time.
That has changed, and today the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness says Medicine Hat is now at what’s called “functional zero,” meaning there are no more than three people experiencing homelessness in a community for three straight months.