The Federal Housing Advocate called the dismantlement of homeless encampments during winter a “serious violation of human rights.”
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“They told me I had an hour, pretty much, to pack it all up and get it moveable,” Cohar said she was told. At a press conference Thursday advocates raised concerns that city efforts to decamp people living along Hastings put people’s health and safety at risk and was a violation of their Charter rights.
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