The recent homeless count in Greater Vancouver shows the continued impact of residential schools on survivors and their families, advocates and support workers say.

"There isn't a single Indigenous person that isn't either a residential school survivor, the child of a residential school survivor or a grandchild of a residential school survivor," said Margaret Pfoh, CEO of the Aboriginal Housing Management Association, .

"Residential schools were perhaps the most prominent and obvious acts of aggression from Canada against Indigenous peoples," she said.

According to the Oct. 5 report published by the Homelessness Services Association of B.C., 4,821 people said they were without a permanent residence in the Metro Vancouver area in 2023.