As City staff have said, many times, there is no evidence to support the continued claim that people are coming to Hamilton in higher numbers than in other cities. And despite claims the Encampment Protocol is the cause of more people coming to Hamilton, the data says otherwise. - ThreadSky

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ward2hamilton.bsky.social • 21 days ago

As City staff have said, many times, there is no evidence to support the continued claim that people are coming to Hamilton in higher numbers than in other cities. And despite claims the Encampment Protocol is the cause of more people coming to Hamilton, the data says otherwise.

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ward2hamilton.bsky.social•21 days ago

There was a new question added to this year's survey that asked people why they came to Hamilton, and 21% said it was for the City's services (broadly speaking). As City staff said, that's the case for most cities of our size (larger cities have more services).

ward2hamilton.bsky.social•21 days ago

Some of the things the City did to help were to build more affordable housing, support the repair of existing units (like at CityHousing Hamilton), and make more shelter spaces available (272 last year). The elimination of the Encampment Protocol didn't do any of this work.

ward2hamilton.bsky.social•21 days ago

To be clear about the context for this data, it was collected, as the name implies, at a point in time. That's important, especially so data can be compared over many years, but it's also important to refer to other data collected by the City and organizations doing this work.

ward2hamilton.bsky.social•21 days ago

To see the whole report as a PDF, including its appendices, visit https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CGDH8KwsiO4YY63A0FT7m-pkbdxG6fR6?usp=sharing.

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