Category: Affordability, Housing and Homelessness
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Moving Indoors, Ending Parks Sheltering – The Next Few Weeks
I left work on Friday feeling rather hopeless. There are so many challenges still on the horizon: Our small businesses, already struggling, facing more restrictions. The variants of concern impacting young people. More than a year into a global health pandemic people still living outside. And this past week, another tragedy: a 15-year-old child living…
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“Community Making” Requires Housing of All Sorts – Three Big Ideas
Last Thursday, at a public hearing for a proposed new condo building on Rockland Ave near Cook Street, a neighbour spoke to Council in favour of the new housing. He listed all the types of housing in the area: he lives in a townhouse; this new condo building is proposed on the lot next door;…
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73 Days – Sheltering and Housing Update, Community Care Tent and Tiny Home Community, Shared Suffering as Connection – Mayor’s Sunday Email – January 17 2021
Hello everyone, Thanks for taking the time to write to me this past week. Because we’re still receiving a high volume of emails about sheltering in parks, and so that you all get an answer from me in a timely way, I’m writing back to all of you together. I’ve been doing this every Sunday…
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80 Days – There is a Plan, Community Care Tent, Parks Sheltering Concerns, Your Suggestions – Mayor’s Sunday Email – January 10 2021
Hello Everyone, Thanks for taking the time to write to me this past week. In order to answer all your emails in a timely way and to ensure that everyone has as much information as possible, I write back to everyone all at once every Sunday. I’ll address your specific concerns as best I can…
