Grey County is piloting a new type of intensive homelessness support program which aims to reduce the number of recently housed homeless people who become homeless again. Article content

This will be the first time newly housed homeless people living in permanent, private market housing will be supported by county case workers, which is why it’s so important, Grey housing manager Josh Gibson said in an interview Thursday. Article content

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“Right now, we have case management for people experiencing homelessness. And then we have within rent-geared-to-income housing we have staff that support. But in the private market, there doesn’t exist that type of staff currently.”

About 30 per cent of 99 chronically homeless households housed by Grey County staf

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