Homeless in the AI Era

The concrete is cold, and the data is brutal. In Calgary, the apartment vacancy rate sits at a suffocating 1.4%. We aren't dealing with a theoretical housing shortage—we are dealing with the physical reality of treating city housing like a corporate stock portfolio.

While institutional budgets tighten and municipal displacement sweeps tear down tents in the freezing rain, thousands are left to navigate a broken social safety net. This is the street-level truth of extreme urban poverty.

You are one missed paycheck, one systemic glitch, one stolen phone away from the same concrete.