At the Church of the Holy Trinity, the lines for a meal keep growing, along with fears of finding a bed in an increasingly overwhelmed shelter system.
The doors haven’t yet opened at the downtown church handing out lunches, but Bob Shinton is already in line — all he owns in the world in a single bag, slung over his shoulder.
He’s right. Across Toronto, there’s been an unrelenting increase in homelessness. In just a year, Toronto went from 8,479 people considered actively homeless to 9,724 in August. The Church of the Holy Trinity is a picture of that crisis in miniature: located in the heart of downtown, it lays bare the failures of housing unaffordability, mental health care access, food insecurity and a wealth of other ailments plaguing Toronto today, including poisoned street drugs.
“It’s something that should never be, and yet here it is — and this is just one place. If you think of all the places that are around, how many people are having to deal with this?” said volunteer Paul Catalano.
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