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Originally Posted by craftbeerdad
Personally I think the province should be funding these services to a higher degree in Hamilton because homeless individuals are "directed here" basically by snooty municipalities, cities and towns in South Western Ontario who don't want such a blight on their accord. In no way am I insulting or marginalizing this situation. The reality is Hamilton/Toronto do the heavy lifting to help and it's still not enough. Housing helps, support systems help, and the infrastructure to help people move forward in society when they've for whatever reason (own volition, system, etc) have fallen into this way of unfortunate life and that's not a cost that's decreasing.
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Social assistance never should have been left to the municipalities to figure out. But it's interesting that no government since that downloading has taken them back -- there have been provincial handouts to assist cities hit harder with those costs, but that's only been a band-aid solution.