The findings from the first federally organized point-in-time count of homeless people were released Thursday, revealing the depth of poverty in almost three dozen Canadian cities.
The count, a homeless census of sorts, identifies and gathers demographic information about everyone in a city who is experiencing homelessness in one 24-hour period. Some of the report's key findings, by the numbers:
32: Cities that took part in the count;
28: Participating cities that had never conducted a point-in-time count before;
0: Cities in Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut and Northwest Territories that took part;
5,954: People identified in "core" populations (shelters, transitional facilities or on the street);
5,373: Homeless people counted during a separate point-in-time survey in seven Alberta cities;
5,253: People enumerated in Toronto's point-in-time count in April 2013;
24: Percentage of people counted in the federal count in "unsheltered" locations (on the street, in parks or abandoned buildings);
47: Percentage of people counted in shelters;
56.7: Percentage of "chronically homeless" people (having spent more than six months homeless at the time of the federal count);
7: Percentage of homeless youth aged 16 to 20 who said they were abused by a parent or guardian;
86: Percentage of homeless families that comprised single parents with dependent children under age 17;
37: Per cent of respondents who identified as indigenous;
4: The percentage of the general Canadian population who identify as indigenous;
5: Percentage of respondents in the point-in-time count who said they were military veterans, twice the proportion of ex-soldiers in the general population;
2: Number of times recent female immigrants and refugees are as likely as non-newcomers to cite domestic abuse as the reason they are homeless.
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