People on government income support programs are increasingly ending up in tents or homeless encampments, community workers said as they applauded Canada’s housing advocate’s recent call to boost minimum wages and social assistance rates.
Colin Young lives in an emergency shelter in St. John’s, where he gets $175 a month through the province’s income support program, in addition to meals, a bedroom and a roof over his head.
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