is the reason it's taking so long to get into subsidized housing because i'm single and families take priority?

no.

i'm only eligible for a one bedroom apartment. now, the one bedroom apartments in the system are likely to be relatively large, and the buildings are supposed to be non-smoking (a key point.), but i'm eligible for what i'm eligible for, nonetheless.

families - wherever they're from - are going to be placed into row houses, and apartments with multiple bedrooms. they won't stick five people into a one bedroom apartment.

so, these are not the people i'm competing with for spaces in the system at all. the people i'm competing with are sometimes going to be seniors (although they have specific buildings for seniors, too), but are mostly actually other disabled people. i don't even think i'm behind a lot of single refugees, as most of the refugees that come into the country are either families or not eligible for subsidized housing at all. it would be a small percentage, anyways, i would guess.

there's actually really just not enough supply to meet demand, for single people, specifically.

now, i could argue that there aren't enough units being built that are intended specifically for single disabled people, and that that's a broad oversight of the system, generally. society has a responsibility to house the disabled, and most of us are not going to end up in long term relationships or have children, because we're disabled; so long as the social responsibility to house the disabled exists, you're going to need to build one bedroom apartments for them, and that's maybe not happening because it's not seen as a priority. i'd actually consider it ideal to move into a large building that strictly houses single disabled people, but that seems to be viewed distastefully by a lot of people nowadays because it's "exclusionary", which i think is silly. i'd actually be more likely to meet friends in a building like that; i wouldn't feel ostracized, at all. so, it might be true that the focus on housing poor families has meant less resources have been directed towards housing disabled single people, and that that is an oversight that needs to be addressed, but i'm not behind a bunch of families on the list - that's not how that works.

where refugees are going to put pressure on housing poor singles is more in the private sector, and the crux of my argument has actually been that you need to get people like me out of the market in order to try to get prices down a little. i shouldn't be forced to compete for housing, like that...