Toronto shelter hotels failed promise of permanent housing: Strathcona residents topoli
“Everybody’s worried because they’ll just come up to you and give you notice that you’re leaving today,” he said. “They’ve already shipped so many people out.”
But Costate said there’s been no progress on finding him housing, despite being told the Strathcona program would be a pathway towards a permanent home. “I have no faith in the city,” he said. “I’ve been on a housing list for so long.” But Dr. Andrew Boozary, the executive director of social medicine at the University Health Network, said the hotel program amounted to good policy from both a health and economic perspective.
“I truly believed that the hotel response would create the pathway to permanent housing,” said Boozary. “I remember sitting there thinking, there’s no way we go back now. People have seen the cruelty of homelessness and the reality that has been denied for far too many people.” Toronto Public Health data shows an average of more than three people experiencing homelessness died every week in 2022.
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