A New Way to Talk About Homelessness part 1

I'm fresh off our 3rd YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) Week here in Barrie, so I've been giving even more thought than usual to messaging around affordable housing and homelessness.

I have two strands of thought on this: 

• How to shift the narrative from homelessness being an individual failing, and
• How to bust up some of the myths surrounding the experience of homelessness.

In this post I'll address the first - some thoughts on an alternate narrative to homelessness as the fault of the person experiencing it. Stay tuned for part two...

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