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n 20 years of studying homelessness, Carol Kauppi has observed three disturbing trends: the number of people experiencing homelessness is growing, they鈥檙e more visible, and Canadians have become more accepting of the problem.

鈥淭hings have gotten worse,鈥� said Dr. Kauppi, who is director of the Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy at Laurentian University. Homelessness used to be hidden, with people existing more on the margins of communities, she noted. 鈥淣ow we see the encampments, people panhandling on the streets and in shopping centres.鈥� Meanwhile, the public 鈥渟eems to have accepted this as part of our society. How can that be, in a country so affluent?鈥�

Getting to the root causes of homelessness is 鈥渁bsolutely urgent,鈥� she said. That鈥檚 the focus of On the Move,聽a study launched in partnership with York University鈥檚聽聽(COH). As part of that study, Dr. Kauppi is examining homelessness through the eyes of 60 Indigenous and 60 non-Indigenous people between the ages of 13 and 30 in the northern Ontario cities of Sudbury, Timmins and Cochrane. Information gleaned from these interviews will feed into a larger, nationwide project called Making the Shift, on prevention and providing solutions.

While research on what impact the pandemic has had on the homeless is still emerging, Dr. Kauppi is mostly hearing about housing affordability. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a huge gap between what people are either able to earn, or what they receive from government benefits,鈥� and the rising cost of living, she said. 鈥淧eople simply don鈥檛 have enough to make ends meet.鈥�

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