The recent Ontario Superior Court decision in the Waterloo encampment case should be a wake-up call for Prime Minister Mark Carney and Housing Minister Gregor Robertson to take immediate action. The Court decision made it clear that governments cannot simply push people experiencing homelessness out of sight without providing meaningful alternatives, affirming that Charter rights require real solutions—not the criminalization of poverty. As the National Right to Housing Network has stated, this landmark ruling signals that governments must take meaningful, proactive steps to ensure people have access to safe and adequate housing and the supports they need, and that courts can intervene when they fail to meet those obligations. For years, the Liberals have promised that housing is a human right and have repeatedly declared that ending homelessness is a national priority. Yet their funding decisions tell a very different story. While homelessness increased by 79 percent between 2022 and 2024, the Carney government's commitment of $13 billion for Build Canada Homes, without affordability targets, falls dramatically short of what municipalities, housing providers, and advocates have consistently said is needed. The growing number of encampments across Canada is the clearest evidence that Liberal rhetoric has not been matched by the sustained public investment and affordability targets required to prevent and end homelessness. The federal government has the fiscal capacity and constitutional responsibility to lead, yet it continues to underinvest while communities struggle to provide emergency shelter, supportive housing, mental health services, addiction treatment, and deeply affordable homes. The Carney government must dramatically increase federal investments in non-market and supportive housing, strengthen homelessness prevention programs, and work with provinces, municipalities, Indigenous governments, and community organizations to ensure everyone has access to safe, adequate housing. Until they match their rhetoric with the resources needed to end homelessness, their promises will ring hollow for the estimated 150,000-300,000 Canadians who still have no place to call home