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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 6h

Saskatoon does not have enough supportive, transitional, or affordable units available to house everyone currently living on our streets.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 6h

It's a violation of the enshrined right to adequate housing for municipalities to dismantle encampments if there is no better alternative for the residents to be moved into. If governments want fewer encampments, they need to create more housing.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Read more about evidence-based solutions here: quintsaskatoon.ca/did-you-see-...

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We all want healthier, safer, more vibrant communities. Let’s think bigger on how we get there! Learn more here: lnkd.in/giaSK9XB This project was made possible through Pattison’s Elevating Voices Diversity & Inclusion Media Grant.

Billboard that says "we don't have to live this way."

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Important read. "Climate change is already showing up in the cost of living. Economists and central bankers are getting better at linking temperatures to price increases." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Climate Change Is Already Showing Up in the Cost of Living

Economists and central bankers are getting better at linking temperatures to price increases.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Over 30 years later and symptoms and services are still being blamed for our social issues.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Your pay has inched ahead, but the high cost of housing and food claws back every bit of progress. Dreams of building wealth over time have been replaced with anxiety about slipping further behind..." -Heather Scoffield, CEO of the Canadian Tax Observatory

Chart showing the wealthiest 20% of Canadians getting richer while the poorest 20% get poorer. With the text: "Canada’s wealth gap has reached record highs. In 2025, the wealthiest 20% of Canadians held 65.5% of Canada’s total net worth while the bottom 40% of Canadians held only 3%."

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A wealth tax for people with net assets over $25 million (0.1% of Canadians) would collect $40 billion PER YEAR which could then be used to properly fund public services like healthcare and key sectors like housing. Thank you to @policyalternatives.ca for this reporting.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Experts and those with lived experience remind us that Indigenous homelessness is a reflection of ongoing colonial harm and willfully neglected treaty relationships.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 02/03/2026

In 2023, 78,050 children under the age of 18 in Saskatchewan were in poverty, a child poverty rate of 27.1% This is well above Canada’s national child poverty rate of 18.3% and is the highest child poverty rate of all the provinces. By @simonenoch.bsky.social #skpoli leaderpost.com/opinion/lett...

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Opinion: Child poverty is deepening in Saskatchewan

The Saskatchewan Party government has not really made an attempt to seriously address poverty for more than a decade.

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Gillian Petit @gillianpetit.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

In a new piece for @irpp.org Policy Options, @shaimaayassin.bsky.social, @rsamson.bsky.social and I examine some of the most persistent myths surrounding income supports in Canada — and what the evidence actually shows. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/02/inco...

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Slaying myths about income support

Rising food insecurity shows Canada’s affordability crisis is real. Income supports fuel inflation or discourage work.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

There is no lack of passionate people or proven solutions but there IS a critical lack of accurate knowledge, fairly distributed resources, and political will.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We have more renters than ever before and our gov'ts aren't introducing proper regulations to protect them or investing enough in non-market housing. Leaving people to rely on private landlords and corps for their housing -- subjected to racism, classism, unsafe conditions, and unaffordable prices.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

On contentious issues like crime, immigration, and housing — regular citizens must be armed with the ability to separate fact from fiction.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Maytree just released a new report on poverty stating "if we want to make real progress on poverty, we must ensure that work pays enough to live with dignity and that income supports and employment regulations are designed to reflect the realities of the working poor." maytree.com/wp-content/u...

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Generation Squeeze @gensqueeze.ca · 09/12/2025

Is housing really a priority when Canada's federal budget looks like this?? The poor little housing hedgehog at $1.6 billion and Old Age Security at $28.3 billion (20% of which goes to seniors with household incomes above $100K). Budgets are a statement of values. action.gensqueeze.ca/fix_oas

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

New tallies found at least 1,931 people are experiencing homelessness in Saskatoon this year — that's 432 more than 2024. So let's get our facts straight about this urgent issue 🤝

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Housing is the word on everyone's lips, but we are still creating only a fraction of the number of affordable housing units we used to. The difference is even more stark if you look back a few decades.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This month, the City of Saskatoon published the findings from their annual Civic Satisfaction and Performance survey. To us, these statistics are a reminder that we have the strength of numbers on our side.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The federal budget is out! Promising $1.5 billion for maintaining our current affordable housing stock, $2.8 billion for Indigenous housing, and $1 billion for transitional and supportive housing.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

As we wait for the federal budget to be released, here's a reminder that we could have both well-funded public services and a healthy economy. Our government would have billions more dollars for improving our public services if they closed Canada's tax haven loopholes. ricochet.media/labour/class...

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The billionaire loophole: How Canada’s tax system fuels inequality

While ordinary Canadians struggle, the top one per cent hide billions in offshore tax havens — a colonial system engineered to protect wealth and starve public services

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This fall, @bcpolicy.bsky.social published a new report on racial inequality in Canada's housing market.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Poverty isn't just a social issue; it's also an economic issue. Ending poverty will strengthen our communities and our economy.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If you're struggling to afford daily necessities, you are not alone. The high concentration of wealth is not an individual failure; it's a policy failure.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The City of Saskatoon's 2025 Housing Report shared that these populations are most likely to live in housing that needs major repairs, costs more than they can afford, or is too small for the number of inhabitants.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Protecting children and youth means better meeting the needs of entire families and communities. The mission to end cycles of childhood trauma and abuse is interconnected with ending the cycles of poverty, problematic substance use, child removal, and homelessness.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A decade after the TRC, the gov't has only completed 15/95 Calls to Action. However, researchers found that when more public attention is focused on reconciliation (ex. directly after the discovery of unmarked graves), the gov't addresses more of the Calls to Action. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

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The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

“Sometimes I feel that this is the best chance we get at a better life." Thank you to Brody Langager and Michelle Berg from the Star Phoenix for helping us to spread the word about our initiatives. thestarphoenix.com/news/local-n...

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'Unique people doing a unique thing': Saskatoon programs offer second chance for people leaving corrections

Saskatoon programs provide work — ranging from needle pickup to graffiti removal — to people who are trying to turn their lives around.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The photo that accompanies this article was taken here in Saskatchewan — people have been falling through the cracks of our disaster response systems (and our regular systems) for years. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/clim...

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Canada needs a climate-responsive social safety net

For anyone already struggling, chaotic disaster responses increase vulnerability and the risk of poverty, health crises and death.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

When workers are underpaid and housing is overpriced, someone is profiting. Our elected leaders are allowing corporations and the wealthy to profit off of raising the cost of necessities like food/housing and paying workers exploitatively low wages.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Through our employment program we speak to many people, primarily women and other gender minorities, who have dreams of further education or fulfilling employment but can only work limited hours in fields with low pay because they don't have access to childcare.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

In a recent op-ed, Canadian economists and housing experts call on the federal government to invest in more informed, collaborative solutions to the housing crisis. archive.ph/GzTnU #housing #canada #canpoli

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

You can read the full letter BC housing experts sent to the federal government here: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

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Generation Squeeze @gensqueeze.ca · 21/07/2025

1976: Average home price in Canada : $263,000. Average wage for Canadians ages 25-34: $68,500. 2024 update: Average home price in Canada : $690,000. Average wage for Canadians ages 25-34: $67,200. Check data for your province or city: www.gensqueeze.ca/straddling_t... #cdnpoli

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We cannot end gender-based violence without confronting the ways in which our economic systems allow it to continue. While unaffordability skyrockets, more vulnerable people stay in violent situations because freedom is financially impossible. perspectivesjournal.ca/economic-lib...

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Economic Liberation: A Gender-Based Case for Basic Income | Perspectives Journal

Gender-based violence traps hundreds of thousands of Canadian women in dangerous situations and economic precarity. A Basic Income Guarantee could transform our response from crisis management to prev...

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

In Canada, low to modest income families spend 94.6% of their wages on immediate needs. Whereas, the highest income Canadians spend only 55.7% of their income on immediate needs. To learn more about what can be done to address economic inequality, read the full @policyalternatives.ca article below.

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Low-income families in Canada have less disposable income than ever - CCPA

Canadian households spent an average of $76,750 on goods and services in 2023, a substantial increase of 14.3 per cent over 2021. This boost in spending was largely driven by the surge in inflation (u...

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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

There are viable alternatives to capitalism. Cooperative and participatory economics emphasize democratic decision-making, self-management, and social ownership for the common good. The profit motive is left behind in favor of a society where wealth is shared and no one is left behind.

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A Participatory Economy: a post-capitalist model

YouTube video by Participatory Economy Project

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Among other countries that boast high GDPs and high standards of living, Canada has fallen far behind in social housing. According to CMHC, only 13% of our social housing stock was constructed by governments within the past 30 years.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention 💸

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is a great resource for people to get help with voting and for service providers to have on hand. Thank you to @dianacmcnally.bsky.social for taking the time to create this ❤️ To distribute physical copies in your community or workplace, access the PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ioJM...

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A bit of info about the work Quint does with our two social enterprises, Build Up Saskatoon and Saskatoon Wellbeing Employment Enterprise Program (SWEEP) 🚧

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Last week, a few of our staff members headed to Winnipeg for the Construction Social Enterprise Summit! Thank you to BUILD Winnipeg for bringing us together to share our experiences, explore new approaches, and dream big for the future.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We must urge our federal government to address the critical lack of social, supportive, and affordable housing options in our country.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We all have a responsibility to vote and advocate with the most vulnerable among us in mind. We also invite you to consider your responsibilities as a community member, neighbour, or friend. How can you reduce material barriers for single individuals or single parent families around you?

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Last year it was a 3% increase, this year it’s even lower. What is the purpose of a social assistance program that doesn’t keep up with the rising cost of rent and essentials? A $20/month increase will not address this illogical gap.

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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The Canadian economy isn’t built to benefit all. Our political leaders have enabled decades of worsening economic inequality and they have the power to stop it. Thank you to @c4tf.bsky.social for compiling this data.

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