US EditionNearly 85,000 people homeless in Ontario, up 8 per cent in 1 year: report
Homelessness in Ontario rose nearly 8% to about 85,000 in 2025, with Indigenous homelessness growing to 11,000 and northern regions seeing a 117% increase since 2021.
- This past week, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario reported nearly 85,000 people in Ontario were homeless last year, up almost 8% from 2024 and nearly 50% since 2021.
- Longstanding underinvestment in social supports has contributed, with northern homelessness increasing by more than 37 and rural communities by over 30 per cent last year, Lindsay Jones said.
- Encampments have grown, with nearly 2,000 sites last year mostly hosting fewer than 10 people, more than 8,100 unsheltered in northern Ontario, over half chronically homeless, and a community housing wait list of 301,340 households.
- Municipalities say they are increasingly on the hook for housing and homelessness funding, absorbing rising local costs that pressure tax levies and risk property tax increases, while AMO called for $2-billion over three years and $11-billion over 10 years.
- Researchers warn that without systemic changes at the provincial and federal levels, homelessness could reach 27,500 in northern Ontario and nearly 300,000 in a downturn by 2035.
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Nearly 85,000 people homeless in Ontario, up 8 per cent in 1 year: report
Homelessness is getting worse across Ontario with an estimated 85,000 people who were without a home in 2025 and nearly 2,000 encampments across the province, a new report from Ontario’s municipalities shows.
Ontario municipalities warn homelessness rising sharply, could double by 2035
A new report from Ontario’s municipalities is warning that homelessness continues to rise across the province, with numbers expected to worsen significantly in the coming years without major intervention. The report, led by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), estimates that 85,000 people were without a home in Ontario last year. It also identified nearly 2,000 encampments across the province, underscoring the growing scale of the…
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