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Fact Check Toronto, a Toronto houseless advocacy collective, disputes the claims raised by the government that encampments and the shelters pose a raised safety risk though government documents obtained by Freedom of Information Access requests. They argue that the city misrepresents and overstates the number of fires by citing data for the ...
Someone Lives Here is a 2023 Canadian documentary film, directed by Zack Russell. [1] The film profiles Khaleel Seivwright, a carpenter who has launched a project of building small private shelters for homeless people in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the bureaucratic resistance of the city government.
The Shoebox Project for Shelters (French: Opération boîte à chaussures pour refuges) is a Canadian registered charity based in Toronto, Ontario. [1] It is nationally supported by Dream. [ 2 ] It collects and distributes shoeboxes filled by volunteer donors with essential and small luxury items for women who are homeless or at-risk of ...
Graffiti of homeless in Quebec City. Homelessness in Canada was not a social problem until the 1980s. [1] The Canadian government housing policies and programs in place throughout the 1970s were based on a concept of shelter as a basic need or requirement for survival and of the obligation of government and society to provide adequate housing for everyone.
Homelessness surveys are being singled out for worsening racial disparities by systematically prioritizing homeless white people ahead of their Black […]
Seaton House is the largest and one of the oldest homeless shelters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located at 339 George Street in the Garden District neighbourhood. The facility is owned by the City of Toronto and operated by the city government's Shelter, Support and Housing Administration.
Finally, he is the Principal Investigator and Director of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness/Homeless Hub, from the 2008 SSHRC Cluster Grant proposal which garnered him a 7-year grant. The Homeless Hub is an online research library and information center containing more than 25,000 homelessness related items.
In collaboration with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, the COH (then CHRN) released the State of Homelessness in Canada in 2013, what they call the first national report card on homelessness in Canada. The report card stated that 30,000 Canadians are homeless every day, 200,000 in any given year. [6]