Indigenous people make up over three-quarters of homeless population in Thunder Bay, Ont. – CBC

Nov 15, 2024

More than 550 people surveyed in 24-hour point-in-time count

Taylor Adair says she isn’t surprised the majority of people in Thunder Bay, Ont., experiencing homelessness are Indigenous, but the numbers are still disheartening.

“There’s a lot of hidden homelessness, a lot of overcrowding in some of these situations as well that [the] community has really brought forward to us, and that we see daily in our front-line work,” said Adair, who is branch manager of housing at the Ontario Native Women’s Association in Thunder Bay.

A point-in-time count in the city found 557 people experiencing homelessness, 78 per cent of which were Indigenous. The count was done over a 24-hour period the first weekend of October and was overseen by the Lakehead Social Planning Council (LSPC).

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