Housing advocates and members of the homeless community gathered outside a downtown church on Tuesday, December 11, to mark a grim milestone: six people dead on Toronto’s streets in the previous month, the most since May 2007.
Those who attend the monthly Homeless Memorial at the Church of the Holy Trinity say things are bad and will only get worse if council approves the cuts to front-line shelter services proposed in the 2013 budget.
Recent weather reports have left many Canadians feeling cold, if not freezing. But some people experienced these extreme temperatures under equally extreme circumstances. According to a 2013 report by the Homeless Hub and The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH), as many as 1.3 million Canadians have experienced homelessness or insecure housing at some point during the last...
Read MoreAiming high, or rather above public facilities, could be the solution to the affordable housing shortage in Toronto, according to Oleson Worland Architects. What if … … we unlocked the development potential of publicly owned urban properties? The development of public lands should meet the needs of Toronto’s communities. In addition to schools,...
Read MoreA new study says there’s a consensus forming on how to fix one of the most stubborn social problems: homelessness. The study by Stephen Gaetz, director of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network, pulls together research from across Canada and the United States, which suggests it’s far cheaper to give a homeless person a place to...
Read More
