Toronto taxpayers should demand better of city’s homelessness services

Toronto taxpayers should demand better of city’s homelessness services

From the Fraser Institute By Matthew Lau The city’s homelessness operating budget alone works out to about $51,000 per homeless person per year. For reference, the median after-tax income among Canadians in 2023 was $39,900. In other words, if you took the City of Toronto’s homelessness services operating budget in 2024 and divided the cash among the city’s homeless population, each homeless person would have 28 per cent higher income than the t…