🇨🇦 ODSP Starvation Program

People in poverty aren't prioritized because it's never framed as poverty. It's framed as addiction or violence or mental illness or social problems not "being so stressed about where you're gonna live or make money or get money or completing something that involves bureaucracy while being poor or unhoused" day-to-day is so consuming that it will make you absolutely sick and crazy" especially out on the streets. A nightmare story is housing villages, places where families go when they're in trouble, but are far away and poorly maintained and run by people that are overworked, made of low quality materials overcrowded that's a that's a nightmare scenario Now put yourself in the scenario where those housing villages *don't exist* and no one has anywhere to go if they get into a bad situation or their parents need help or their sibling is having a meltdown or the apartment above flooded or something else they can't resolve or so little money they have to buy food instead of meds which makes it all worse or the power is shut off so ... no notice of your upcoming OW assessment or landlord communication or something happened with your mail or or or ... it's everything except a poverty problem. 👀 and we try to slice and dice it and figure it out but the reality is people can't support themselves. Nothing except benefit increases is going to change that, and nothing will shift the economy more than to give poor people more money to spend.