Winnipeg residents say the city, province and front-line organizations are failing in the fight against homelessness.

The results of a new Probe Research poll, conducted between Sept. 4 and Sept. 14, found the overall perception of how well public officials and front-line workers are managing homelessness has continued to decline over the past year.

“The proportion of people who are happy with what the city and the province are doing when it comes to addressing homelessness is quite low,” Probe Research principal Curtis Brown said Thursday.

“It is a big problem, it is a thorny problem and it’s not something you can magically snap your fingers and fix overnight… but it’s something where people are seeing what is happening in their communities and they are sad about it.”

About 10 per cen

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