A homeless man folds his blanket from a night’s rest in an area in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito October 30, 2022 New anti‑poverty initiative focuses on lived experiences to help shape policy Leah Levac, University of Guelph and Jillian Crocker, University of Guelph ‘Unlegislating’ poverty demands a new course of action from governments that focuses on the expertise of people living with poverty who understand acutely how public policies fail.