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Community resilience in a housing crisis

Orillia tackles one of Canada’s most prominent “wicked” problems

by DURNFORD J
Community resilience in a housing crisis The supportive rapid re-housing project provides housing for 16 situationally unhoused youth, with 24-hour staffing and wrap-around supports designed to assist participants in finding stable, permanent housing. Photo courtesy of City of Orillia
Published in September 2024 - Page 7

It is a truism that many municipal councillors run for office because they are connected to their communities and they are motivated by meliorism: a sincere belief that their corner of the world can be made better through collective efforts. It is also a truism that efforts to find solutions to “wicked” problems such as affordable housing, poverty, and substance use, even at the local level, soon run up against the realities of jurisdiction

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