Addressing homelessness through shelter hotels

Another downtown shelter hotel is set to close soon, and residents are calling on the city to put the forced evictions on hold with few housing units available. Caryn Ceolin with whether shelter hotels are a viable option for addressing homelessness.

[@annetoronto5474]

There are are lot more homeless people in Canada 🇨🇦 than we are actually counting. So many people are renting a room in a house or apartment that would rather have their own place. So many illegal unsafe basement rooms and apartments being rented. Landlords want $3000 a month for a decent place, but not enough people make $6000 to $9000 a month to afford the rent.

[@MrMannyhw]

Those are all the Indian kids on student visas. Even after having a full time job, they still live in illegal basements.

[@annetoronto5474]

@@MrMannyhw most of these are rented to South American, African, and Jamaican people in my neighborhood. The building across from me is packed, multiple people sharing one apartment. You can tell very easily what is going on by the amount of trash around and people hanging out outside to get space.

[@billboggs6641]

​@@MrMannyhw " students " . Lol

[@MrMannyhw]

@@annetoronto5474 I got a solution for the ladies. Only fans!

[@travelteam12345]

STOP bringing people into Canada for now till we can figure out how to fix this problem first. If these folks can work they should be. Life is hard but you have to help yourself sometimes.😢❤️🙏🍁🍁🍁🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@naythanstonge9411]

Even if the homeless find jobs, getting their own apartment is nearly impossible. I feel for those who are struggling the most!

[@bigboi3512]

Life isn't about living anymore it's about making money. Unfortunately those who can't make money are left behind and homeless.

[@barbietrink4984]

The governments need to do more for low income seniors too. Wake up Canada 🇨🇦

[@martytrueblood5902]

MAID

[@MrMannyhw]

Government do more for their own and not for foreigners. They most likely bought airplane tickets to come. Then they claim they should be able to stay. We shouldn’t help them. Poor and desperate people do not have money to fly to Canada.

[@elena2125]

Nastiness, wishing harm on others. Stop wishing what you wouldn't even want for yourselves because one day it is going come to you.

[@martytrueblood5902]

@@elena2125 i was hoping they would find AIDS ..

[@specialkdivine]

Crime is the best answer to poverty ... thats how i got off the streets. Now i live in a nice condo in Davisville and enjoy a life that is nothing like the destitution i experienced 10 years ago 😔😔😔 sad that i had to hurt so many people along the way to become tax payer

[@jadinem7956]

Are u insane ? Crime ? Like the person who stole my phone when I my self is struggling? How is that fair ?

[@mikeh2129]

Your a fool if you think crime is the best answer to poverty

[@Zzz-nv4xi]

Hope you are safe and well now 🙂

[@BornLoveandEnergy]

Amen! Sharing my Story and Testimonies on Channel. The, Lord is great. He will hold you up.

[@Del-j6g]

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[@roberts3965]

Wat is this allowance given to the landlords to increase their rent ? is it a right decision in this situation?

[@HeronPoint2021]

Landlords who owned these hotels in Van. BC basically WANTED their tenants to be on guaranteed full time welfare/disability. If you were on/off, dealing with a life change, and not on the "roles" you were not welcome. Then the landlords raised the rents to reflect full time disability. And rents went up from there. MOST are auto-debit right from the renters govt. checque, but if you're on/off you're on the streets.

[@frankihatch]

Too many homeless people in Canada

[@SillyBillies1]

Liberal agenda

[@laylalayla5364]

Good to know the British system hss finally made its way to Canada

[@martytrueblood5902]

canada canada woo hoo

[@matthew-kf6le]

Canada is still a British colony we just have the illusion of being a sovereign country

[@farmerjoe8508]

Can I have a hotel room?

[@allentam5754]

Go find work and support yourselves u lazy people stop abusing the system 🤬🤬🤬

[@specialkdivine]

Only if your a refugee

[@RichardStacey-b6t]

The recent reporting by CityTV like this story and the suddenly puffed-up “refugee crisis” story seems completely biased, irresponsible, and misleading. There is no reason to house these people in one of the most expensive postal codes in the country and in the city’s prime tourist district. They need treatment and spending the city budget on prime location real estate leaves no money left over to actually help them.

[@FreshLyte]

Toronto deserves this. In fact every single homeless person in the country should be shipped there to live in hotels and apartments. Problem solved. Simple as.

[@slsilver481]

She explained that the services they need are in that area

[@MrMannyhw]

City should give their contest money to these homeless people. Hahaha.

[@MrMannyhw]

@@FreshLytesend them to Vancouver. The homeless will be happy there because no winter.

[@theredboneking]

Ask yourself why Japan has so few homeless people?

[@shauncameron8390]

One reason: it doesn't have mass immigration.

[@fringe_minority]

They make sushi

[@theredboneking]

Japan’s drug law is one of the toughest in the world. Personal possession could earn you a five year jail sentence. Because of that, only 1.6% of Japanese have tried anything other than alcohol. Whereas in the USA, 46% of people have tried a drug outside of alcohol. N.Y police are warning that Marijuana is laced with fentanyl, in May of this year.

[@stevenchow408]

​@@fringe_minoritythey work hard

[@fringe_minority]

@@theredboneking and yet if you ask a standard edition liberal, they will most likely say drugs are not the biggest problem

[@SillyBillies1]

Send them to Los Angeles

[@crystalclear111]

I dont understand how these ppl haven't been rehabilitated in 2 yrs time? Homelessness should be temporary.

[@jamieking8011]

There is a mental health crisis so counsellors and therapists are being headhunted, I've gone through three therapists in the last five months because they keep moving onto better jobs. If they can't get the stability of help how can they heal? They have to reopen the wounds and explain themselves over and over and over again, just re-traumatizing themselves in the process.

[@slsilver481]

It's not easy to get affordable housing when you are on a low or fixed income. I don't understand all the issues either but it seems like many of these people are disabled or ill. Toronto and Vancouver rents are exorbitant yet all the services these people need are in urban areas.

[@SillyBillies1]

40 years in the making