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Quint Development @quintsaskatoon.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 12h

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

Pushing for solutions that address those root causes, alongside adequate funding for the services that keep people alive in the meantime, is how we create lasting change. We need to eradicate these issues, not just move them to the next block.

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

The real root causes of the crises in our communities are increasing wealth inequality, a toxic drug supply, ongoing colonial harms, and wholly inadequate systems of healthcare, housing, and social support — not harm reduction services like Prairie Harm Reduction.

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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...

leaderpost.com

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

We have the collective power necessary to push for just solutions to our shared socio-economic crises — we just have to use it 💭

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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

However, addressing the failure of Canada's housing system will require more than just new investments — our housing policies need to dramatically shift toward preserving the right to housing over the desire to profit.

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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

Our country loses an estimated $3.65 billion in tax revenue every single year because they allow offshore tax avoidance. Furthermore, polls have found that over 90% of Canadians support addressing tax havens.

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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

They urged policymakers to tackle the crisis by “drastically expanding affordable housing supply, prioritizing investments in Indigenous, Black, and community-led housing projects" and “dismantling systemic barriers, enhancing tenant protections, and improving enforcement against discrimination."

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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

These stats come from an assessment of people living in private sector, for-profit housing. Like many other communities across the globe, our city is in urgent need of more social and affordable housing. Any community is only as strong as its ability to support its most vulnerable members.

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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

We each have a responsibility to ensure that our leaders know we expect justice for Indigenous communities to be a priority 365 days a year.

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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

Climate disasters such as wildfires and extreme heat will continue to worsen social and economic inequality until Canada takes real steps to fight climate change and sufficiently mitigate its impact on our communities.

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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

Provincial and federal leaders are choosing to raise minimum wage by 35 cents instead of ensuring that everyone receives a living wage and refusing to implement a housing system that prioritizes those who need housing over those who want to profit off of the housing market.

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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

Saskatchewan is also one of only two provinces that haven't signed an agreement with the feds to continue $10-day childcare and other federal incentives past 2026.

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

@policyalternatives.ca just released a new report tracking the progress of federal and provincial efforts to increase the affordability and accessibility of childcare, determining that Saskatchewan is over 17,000 childcare spaces short of government goals. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

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Cash cow: Assessing child care space creation progress - CCPA

Canada’s $10-a-day child care program isn't creating enough spaces to meet demand and isn't doing enough to make sure that new spaces are non-profit

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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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