Racialized persons are those who identify as non-Caucasian.

In Canada, one in five racialized families, live in poverty, versus one in twenty white families. A large percentage of the homeless population is comprised of Indigenous and other Racialized groups.

A survey done in Toronto’s 2021 Street Needs Assessment found that over two-thirds of all respondents (both outdoors and indoors) were racialized individuals, particularly those who identify as black representing 60% The 2020 Metro Vancouver Homeless Count discovered that despite only accounting for 1.2% of Metro Vancouver’s population, 6% of the 3,634 surveyed in March were Black.