Canada’s homeless population is aging, changing how shelters are run | Unpublished
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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Ashley Joannou
Publication Date: June 6, 2025 - 17:08

Canada’s homeless population is aging, changing how shelters are run

June 6, 2025
Seventy-one-year-old Roger Oake sat on a bench outside the Union Gospel Mission shelter in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside after breakfast. He had been sleeping at the shelter for about a month “this time” and said that after several years of homelessness, walking “the beat” during the day when the shelter isn’t open has become harder as he gets older.


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