Federal housing advocate Marie-Josée Houle is calling for the federal government to expand and sustain funding for municipalities to help them respond to encampments.

The recommendation is part of a report released last week by Houle. The report comes after Houle toured five cities in southern Ontario in September: Hamilton, Cambridge, Kitchener, London and Toronto.

“We've written a few letters of concern where the responses were directly violating human rights and an opportunity to educate city councils that were taking some of these terrible - I'm going to not mince words - terrible steps that were leading to more of the criminalization of poverty and homelessness rather than addressing the root causes,” Houle told CBC Kitchener-Waterloo’s Craig Norris, host of _The Morning Edition_, o

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