Pressure Builds On Edmonton's Inner City Streets

Access Advocacy April 2025 Compassion Cost of life Crises Crisis Dignity Disparity Displacement Drugs Economy Edmonton Encampments Faith Foodbank Homelessness Humanity Inequality Inflation Meals Navigation Outreach Pandemic Politics Poverty Precarity Recovery Resilience Resources Security Social Solidarity Stability Streets Unemployment Unsheltered Urban Volunteers Vulnerable assistance chronic community distribution donations emergency housing hunger isolation jobs marginalized mentalHealth procession shelter stigma support tariffs visibility Edmonton Canada Franciscan Friar Vincent McConnell Ryan McKercher wooden cross Sacred Heart Catholic Church First Peoples Way of the Cross procession inner city Alberta homelessness downtown economic pressures agencies meals snacks Meals on Wheels unhoused chronically homeless April 18 2025 tripled 5 000 people 1 200 chronically 15 000 meals 500 meals daily Artur Widak NurPhoto Edmonton's inner city downtown Edmonton economic pressures Sacred Heart Church.