Winnipeggers support action on root causes of poverty, homelessness: poll
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Poverty and homelessness are two major issues Winnipeg's next mayor will have to deal with. Recent polling shows Winnipeggers want the city to zero in on the root causes.
Poverty and homelessness are two major issues Winnipeg's next mayor will have to deal with. Recent polling shows Winnipeggers want the city to zero in on the root causes.
A Probe Research poll, commissioned by CTV News Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Free Press, found there is high support among Winnipeggers for the city to address these issues.
"I think for the first time in quite a while we have seen the kind of trifecta of crime, poverty and homelessness become this huge, just like a massive issue for Winnipeggers, really eclipsing almost every other issue in the civic election," said Mary Agnes Welch, a principal with Probe Research.
In total, 81 per cent of respondents said they would support safe consumption sites – with only 18 per cent opposing the idea.
"Despite kind of the reticence of the provincial government to allow these to happen, Winnipeggers are fairly supportive of the idea of safe consumption sites," Welch said. "I think that does make some sense to me – we're seeing a lot of those high levels of overdose deaths."
Support was highest among those living in the city's core area.
