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Ottawa's new 10-year homelessness plan won't last that long | Opinion

Brigitte Pellerin: The city has had three different decade-long plans since 2014. So far it's going great — except for reducing homelessness.

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Friends, citizens, fellow taxpayers, folks. Meet the new 10-year plan to end homelessness. It’s just like the old 10-year plan but more confusing. Also? Weren’t we already in the middle of the previous plan? What do all these changes mean, beyond “haha, try to hold us accountable for anything now, joke’s on you”? Let’s find out.

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