Like many cities in Canada, Nanaimo has a housing crisis. As rent prices have surged, so has homelessness. According to the city's last official count, there are 515 unhoused people in Nanaimo at any given time. By population, that is a higher homelessness rate than the city of Vancouver. The second episode in our series,* IDEAS for a Better Canada*, explores how homelessness affects the health of our democracy and why long-term solutions are so hard to achieve.
