Who is responsible for homelessness outcomes?

Woodstock’s Social Well-Being Task Force brings the City together with County and community partners, including an encampment-response team. Its published remit offers a useful authority map, but a coordinated policy is not proof of results. Public-space concerns, emergency shelter, permanent housing, addiction treatment and mental-health care require different institutions and measures. Each commitment needs its own public explanation: who funds it, who operates it, what access exists and what improves. Candidates should explain their preferred balance of housing, support and public-space management without implying that a councillor can command health services or solve the issue through a single bylaw.