Dreddz, a community worker and an advocate for homeless issues who is currently in the shelter system; A.J. Withers, who is the Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University
Toronto’s homeless shelter system is at capacity, and hundreds of people seeking shelter every night cannot be accommodated. It’s a desperate situation as the number of people seeking help is growing every month and it’s likely only going to worse as the weathers turns, but also because the city is closing a number of temporary shelters it opened during the pandemic, some in hotels, which advocates say is going to cause even more upheaval for unhoused people.
StarThisMatters I suppose the lack of used syringes and fecal matter all over the Esplanade will be tough to deal with when the city closes the Novotel flophouse. But the 'advocates' don't think about that, do they?
StarThisMatters Good. “Homeless” is just a euphemism for drug addicts. Buying or building them boxes to live in doesn’t change them. It does however disrupt neighbourhoods and impose this mess on parks etc. Those shelters in hotels were a mistake. Rehab and hospitals in the old sense are needed