Canada sees 60% increase in homeless support workers over 5 years
As homelessness in Canada grows, the number of workers in the homelessness support sector has also been increasing.
According to Statistics Canada, the sector saw a 60.7 per cent increase in workers between 2016 and 2021, when there were 10,130 people employed in the field. StatCan says that this outpaced the growth in all other sectors by 3.4 per cent.
