evandyk
Senior Member
Good development. The few remaining people made it clear last week that they had no intention of ever accepting the housing the city was offering them, so there wasn't really any other option left.
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How to solve homeless issue?
- Thread starter Admiral Beez
- Start date
evandyk
Senior Member
Really smart of them, of course, to wait until October to do it instead of May.
PurplePinky
Active Member
City clears encampment from Toronto park after residents demanded permanent housing
The City of Toronto has cleared a homeless encampment at Dufferin Grove Park after a small group of remaining residents said they wouldn’t leave until they got permanent housing. City vehicles were seen removing tents and people’s belongings from the park this morning, with city security and...
toronto.citynews.ca
Towered
Superstar
Exactly - right on time for the park not to be useful anymore for the next 8 months
Admiral Beez
Superstar
I don’t usually refer to US-owned media’s take on Canadian issues, but this article in the NP is interesting.A pretty even handed look by the Globe, from someone who’s obviously on the same neighbourhood listserv as I am.
In Dufferin Grove, a big tent of compassion for homeless encampments begins to fray
Even self-professed progressives are losing patience in this Toronto park – and the debate about housing and compassion is not uniquewww.theglobeandmail.com
And on twitter, Dan Seljak makes the good point that if there’s a bunch of bylaw officers just standing around in the park anyways, they should ticket the lawless riffraff who let their dogs run around off leash constantly in the park.
'Don't go downtown!' Inside Canada's small-town homeless catastrophe
Menace, addiction and human despair have overwhelmed Canada's small towns and cities. Some say it's getting worse. Some just want to leave.
nationalpost.com
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Some ideas here.
www.thestar.com
Paywall free: https://archive.is/hZyZJ
Can we fix Toronto’s homelessness crisis? This is what it could cost to build a home for every person living in our parks and streets
More than 1,600 people are living outdoors, many in encampments. The Star crunched the numbers and this is what it could take to build a home for every one of them.
www.thestar.com