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 drugs use emergency housing hunger isolation jobs marginalized mentalHealth procession shelter stigma support tariffs visibility Edmonton Canada April 18 substance use alcohol use public bench sidewalk inner-city 45th Annual Good Friday Outdoor Way of the Cross Alberta homelessness downtown tripled 2019 5 000 people unhoused chronically unhoused economic pressures agencies 15 000 meals snacks Meals on Wheels 500 meals daily delivery Artur Widak NurPhoto April 18 2025 inner city downtown Edmonton unhoused population economic challenges food assistance chronic homelessness public assistance community support.