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‘Restore safety and order’: Ontario spending $75M to remove public encampments | Globalnews.ca

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$50 million to be spent on ready-to-build affordable housing projects, $20 million to expand shelter capacity.

$5.5 million to top up the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB) to free up emergency shelter spaces for people living in encampments.

The Association of Municipalities of Ontario ( AMO ) said in a report that the recorded number of homeless people is ticking towards 100,000 .