By: Nick Liard

Over 15 hundred people in Greater Sudbury are considered homeless or at risk of being homeless.

That’s according to results released today from the Poverty, Homelessness and Migration study done by the City of Greater Sudbury, Laurentian University and many community partners which will now aim to support those people.

Carol Kauppi says this problem is affecting everybody, as 488 people were women, 828 were men and 24 were LGBTQQ.

The study also says 43 percent of the homeless are indigenous people while 37 percent are Anglophones of European decent and the total number of 1,540 people are just 62 people less than the city of Vancouver.

Kauppi says with the snow starting to fall this is a perfect time to start talking about solutions, and members of the Homelessness Network, Salvation Army, N’Swakamok Native Friendship Centre and the Canadian Mental Health Association all spoke about solutions they are working on.

This is the first such study done in Sudbury since 2009, where they numbers were between 400-600.

 Some of the major reasons people surveyed gave for being homeless are employment issues, problems with housing, mental or physical illness and family issues.