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FUN FACTS:

• 5% of people were at some point homeless
• there were 35k homeless people on any given night in 2019 Canada
• there are 26k beds across all homeless shelters in 2019 Canada
• not all of those beds were full because homeless people are not evenly distributed across the country
• since COVID:
  • fuckton of people lost their jobs and were evicted
  • shelters are spreading out the beds to promote social distancing and reduce risk of everyone getting infected, therefore further reducing their already limited capacity
• most homeless people have no substance abuse problems
• 25% of them have a job, but it doesn't pay enough to afford rent
• there is literally no way to have a shower when you can't already afford a place to live. (some charitable people are trying to fix that)
• racial minorities, LGBTQ people, and people with mental illnesses are over-represented in the homeless population
• there used to be anti vagrancy laws that literally just made being homeless illegal in some places
•  those laws were removed because they were kinda bad at helping people
• now there are new anti vagrancy laws with much more vague language that literally do the same thing
• These things are illegal in some places:
  • loitering
  • panhandling
  • obstructing (loitering 2)
  • salvaging
  • resting & sleeping in public
  • sheltering yourself from the elements
  • causing "disorder" 
• most of these laws are very vague and its up to the people enforcing them to decide what is and what isn't illegal
• did you know supermarkets throw away A LOT of food that is still edible?
• did you know that they often just send it to a landfill and sometimes go as far as to prevent people from getting access to it?
• some places are trying to make that practice illegal
• there are only a few of those places in the world right now

WHO DID THIS?

Aashiq Shaikh	Programming, Art, Game Design
Ash Kamenska	Programming, Art, Game Design
Martin Zina	Art, Game Design