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Housing is a public health emergency... As we approach National Housing Day on November 22nd, the shelter and housing crisis in our City is unlike anything we have ever seen before. COVID-19 has amplified this crisis as more people lose income and struggle to survive. The provincial and municipal governments refuse to institute a moratorium on evictions, paving the way for new waves of evictions. Shelters are full, and remain sites of fear for a perfect storm for COVID tran...smission as conditions do not allow for distancing or enough personal space. Encampments have grown in every park across the city, and communities of people in tents are staring down the approaching cold weather with no real alternatives. All levels of government have failed miserably to house people. We see drops in the bucket, tiny Bandaids on a giant wound.... https://ocap.ca/national-housing-day-2020-a-crisis-like-we/

This coming Sunday https://fb.me/e/4YDKrRASs

Homes not cages! ttps://www.toronto.com/news-story/10238751-advocates-say-exhibition-place-respite-shelter-puts-humans-in-glass-cages-/#.X6L6d4soP_s.facebook

From TTCriders: The City of Toronto quietly stopped processing applications to the Fair Pass #TTC discount program in March. Sign the open letter & get involved: https://bit.ly/34EWyUc City staff will report about the future of the program on November 12, 2020.... https://twitter.com/ttcriders/status/1321903379929473026

https://ocap.ca/25909-2/ ONTARIO COALITION AGAINST POVERTY AN OPEN LETTER TO MAYOR JOHN TORY, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE, AND CITY COUNCIL Subject: Expropriation of 214-230 Sherbourne for the purpose of conversion into social housing as described in: A Community Driven Proposal for Public Housing: submitted by Open Architecture Toronto...Continue reading