Of 202,110 residents in Windsor, Ont. that means 24,355 people are living in poverty \u2014 that\u2019s according to new data from Statistics Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to three local social service advocates CTV News Windsor spoke to on Wednesday, none of them were shocked by the numbers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot with the current state of things, we see it here every day,\u201d said Angela Yakonich, executive director of the Kids First Food Bank<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yakonich said it comes at a time when usage continues to go up and donations are going down, primarily from the middle class<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey\u2019re struggling to make ends meet because the cost of groceries has gone up, the cost of gas has gone up, so all those donations that we used to see have gone down,\u201d said Yakonich. \u201cSo what I think needs to happen is people with the resources to do good donating need to kind of step up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United Way of Windsor-Essex isn\u2019t surprised by the figures either<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don’t think we’ll ever eradicate poverty in the world and that’s not what we’re talking about here,\u201d said CEO Lorraine Goddard, who noted the key is to focus on the root causes of poverty including cost of housing, inflation, food inflation and the pandemic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Goddard said \u201cgenerational poverty\u201d is also a challenge<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeople who are growing up in poverty and facing so many barriers, that the opportunity for them to get out is very difficult,\u201d she explained<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roger Fordham, executive director at New Song Church, believes affordable housing is one of the keys to easing poverty<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOwning a home is your biggest store of wealth for most Canadians,\u201d said Fordham. \u201cAs that becomes harder and harder, that means that people don’t have a home to go get money because they want to start a business, they don’t have a home to go put their children through university.\u201d <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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