The Summer of the Tent is a Failure of Housing Policy

<p>This summer and this year has seen tent encampments spring up across not just the 905 but across the entire country.</p><p>As housing prices continue to skyrocket and wages remain stagnant, a very real and very immediate economic crisis has emerged. More and more people are being forced out of their rental properties and homes due to them becoming more and more unaffordable. The result has seen a crisis of homelessness on our streets. It is virtually impossible for one to walk through their community and not see those suffering from homelessness in an alcove or a tent...