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Exactly. Contributing to the viability of encampments does nothing. Instead we should be treating each encampment person as an individual case, with a city worker assigned to find that specific person housing. And if the housing doesn't exist, make it so.
We need to treat homelessness like how we react to natural disasters, like these pop-up houses after the Maui fire disaster. If we're assuming that encampments are semi-permanent, then we might as well make them livable and safe, but not in parks.
It's putting people first, excepting the people who are the majority that would like to be able to use parks for the intended recreational, non-residential use.How is no strategy to regain our parks from occupation a strategy?
City of Toronto releases updated encampment strategy and measures to support people experiencing homelessness
News Release May 22, 2024 The City of Toronto is evolving its approach to encampments and supports for people experiencing homelessness based on feedback from the public, interested parties and recommendations from the City’s Ombudsman. To date, 28 of the 31 of the Ombudsman’s recommendations...www.toronto.ca
“This report marks a shift away from enforcement and another step toward putting people first.
– Gord Tanner, General Manager, Toronto Shelter and Support Services
The residents of this city who want to enjoy their parks are people too, Gord.
It's essentially an admission that the city has completely given up on trying to tackle the issue.
www.theglobeandmail.com
Are the wraps over the windows solid? There was a time when they were made up of dots so that they looked fine from the outside but from the inside you could still see out. I haven't noticed any issue looking out from the inside but I walk more than I take transit most days so I have not been checking.
They are not solid but you really can't see properly. The TTC ones are better than the ones that Niagara Falls had a couple of years ago when they had buses (mainly for tourists) which were almost solid wrap!
I don't have access to view the article, I find that list is a bit lackluster. There are much better small things that apply city wide that I think could be investigated, off the top of my head:Marcus Gee with a column in the Globe on how Toronto is messing up 'the little things'.
Toronto is failing on the small details that make cities work
Having a healthy, functional city means getting the little things right and Toronto is not keeping up with them
From the above:
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Those complaints are:
1) Dundas Station, both appearance and being cramped and says Gee confusing.
2) Cheesy Planters refers to Nathan Phllips Square, where there is also unmowed grass, and empty concrete planters in poor condition.
3) The ad wrap refers to one on a Dundas streetcar that Gee was on.
He also, rightly, took issue w/the horrible garbage cans in parks.
The best parks have pay walls, like the Toronto Islands or the Zoo. You're not getting into the Toronto Islands park unless you're paying for the ferry. That's the damage a fixed link would do, as we'd soon have encampments.
uuuh High park? Don valley park? riverdale? coronation? soon to be portlands?
