homelessness

A legal coalition returns to court to advocate for physical distancing in shelters to protect homeless people from COVID-19.

The City of Toronto has stopped tracking deaths of homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Instead of instituting rent caps in a city where the average one-bedroom costs over $1,000 they're relying on private companies to build shelters," says DIRE executive director Christeen Thornton.

The medical officer of health and mayor have authority to fast track efforts to protect the public and businesses during the pandemic. Then why not direct mask wearing in homeless shelters?

"I see constantly in Toronto not a lack of concern about homelessness and income inequality, but a sweeping inability to acknowledge it."

The second article in a two-part series looking at the cycle of displacement of homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first article in a two-part series looking at the cycle of displacement of homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Without a real national housing program, the economic fallout of COVID-19 will likely lead to growing homeless encampments.

It took a lawsuit at the Superior Court level to push Toronto to commit to enforceable physical distancing in shelters.

Homeless people across the country remain at risk in the pandemic, necessitating legal action by Toronto advocates.