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This is a great idea and I’m happy to see it actually happening instead of just talk.
Also I really appreciate the man they interviewed. He’s right, if people see people like him keeping their space clean and acting as good citizens, hopefully they’ll see that a lot of homeless are just in a rough place and not bad people.
I’m glad hes addressing he’d like to move them from the parks. Like it or not, people don’t love seeing tents and shelters in their public spaces and there are some health and safety concerns with needles and human waste. Hes both building shelters and trying to move them to less impactful locations. I think this will overall get him more support from the public if the public starts seeing results like cleaner parks and an illusion of housing. The shelters are far better than tents but still not a forever solution, as the article states.
I come from a country where the parks got taken and turned into permanent shanty towns. I don’t know why anyone would want that in their city, or for them to be roaming the subway. That is not a solution, that only makes other city services worse. This is a better solution, so long as they’re picking good spaces where they won’t get taken down by the city.
Here’s the gofundme if you want to help out.
Can you qualify for a tax receipt by donating to the go fund me?
Looks like Ryan is applying to be a registered charity. The gofundme should qualify for tax receipts after that.
Samu has been in Canada for one year and eight months, experiencing difficulty landing a job — especially without a permanent address.
This is an issue we had with a tiny home pilot in Kingston. A permanent address is critical to being allowed to participate in society. The tiny homes did not provide a permanent address. So whole it solved some aspects of homelessness, it missed the mark on this one.
I hope this Toronto project was able to get addresses.
Why wasn’t an address provided? I’m not familiar with Kingston’s pilot, but the social service department of most cities have solved this pretty simple problem by either renting a PO Box or using their own address. Sure, people in the know recognize the address but at least people can receive their mail.
I’m sure the city will come in with their jackboots and tear all these homes down just like they did the last time
I mean where were they? Cause I like these but I wouldn’t and them set up next door and neither would you
I saw one out front of our business, on Front St Toronto, and several lined up along the edge of one of our downtown parks.
The information on the home and from the guy talking to by-standers is that there’s a bicycle on the front of it - so it’s apparently allowed to stop “anywhere” because “it’s a bike”. No opinion on that, just repeating what I heard.
Our owner had a chat with parking enforcement because it was during summer - CafeTO - and was taking up one of the few parking spaces nearby. Parking said (at the time) that they couldn’t do anything/don’t know what to do.
No opinion here, just answering the previous two comments.
Where are they putting them?
