Medicine Hat lends advice to cities tackling homelessness

How you ask has Medicine Hat solved homelessness?

"Well, pretty simple. We gave them a home," Clugston told CBC's Information Radio.

"No matter what the situation is if it's mental health, if it's addiction, are you escaping domestic violence? It doesn't matter, you get a house, you get a roof over your head. And then, right away, part of the intake process is questions like why are you homeless? What caused this? And then wrap-around services are brought in right away. Whatever you need," Clugston said.

Originally Clugston worried about trumpeting their success in ending homelessness, for fear that a mass migration of transient people would take place – but his worries never came to fruition.