Shelter hotel residents are calling on Toronto\u0027s new mayor, Olivia Chow, to step in to stop the site\u0027s closure.
Toronto’s overstretched shelter system poses one of most urgent challenges for Chow’s mayoralty.
“People are being severely abused through policies, and that ranges from more displacement from shelter hotels closing, to the scene on city streets with refugees literally left locked outside of shelters,” said Cathy Crowe, a longtime street nurse and educator. Crowe said along with permanently converting hotels and other buildings to housing, the city and other levels of governments must expand rent supplements and housing allowances so people can afford a place of their own.Article content
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