Finland has taken a radically different approach to homelessness by designing entire apartment blocks specifically for people without homes, based on a simple but powerful idea: housing comes first. Instead of requiring people to secure jobs or overcome personal challenges before getting a home, Finland provides permanent housing upfront. In these apartments, rent is flexible and adjusts to a person’s income, ensuring that no one is pushed back onto the streets due to financial pressure. Once re

This week we learned that homelessness is up 8% across Ontario through 2025, and up 50% since 2021. I want to be as clear as possible – homelessness is a tragedy. Growing homelessness in our province is worse than in many other areas of the country. This is a fixable problem. Shelters are filling up on these cold nights, subsidized housing waitlists are topping 10 years or more across the province, and private rentals are unaffordable for many of our neighbours. I am once again asking this gover