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 April 18 homeless individuals tents pavement sidewalk inner-city area 45th Annual Good Friday Outdoor Way of the Cross Alberta homelessness downtown economic pressures agencies meals snacks Meals on Wheels 5 000 unhoused 1 200 chronically homeless tripled since 2019 15 000 meals daily 500 meals delivered Artur Widak NurPhoto unhoused population homeless crisis social services food assistance community support urban poverty economic hardship public event social issues.