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Saving Toronto\'s Homeless

Saving Toronto\'s Homeless

Closed — 30 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 24 years ago
Toronto\'s homeless problem is growing worse, not better. The government is not looking at this big urban issue. More children are living on the streets. This will effect them mentally, socially and emotionally. Please sign to help make homelessness top the Ontario\'s list of things to fix! Facts on Homelessness in Toronto: - 2,700 children were staying in shelters in 1988, in 1998, 6,000 children were staying in shelters -Goverment has withdraw from funding new social housing by senior levels of government and reductions in social assistance benefits - There\'s a lack of shelters, food banks, and other services which help the homeless - In 1998, only 5 youth are allowed into an emergency shelter - Single man are takes up the majority of homeless - more homeless 2 parent families are increasing -By the end of the year 2000, over 32,100 people seeked emergency shelter in Toronto -In 2000, The number of children stayed in hostels exceeded about 6,600

Updates

March 24, 2004

I honestly never thought this would gain this much steam when I first typed it out during a frustrated lunch break. It feels like people are finally waking up to the fact that thousands of kids are stuck in hostels and that is just not okay by any measure I can think of. I am genuinely overwhelmed by the energy right now and need to figure out the best way to get these names in front of the people at the city building.

3 Comments

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Sarah Robinson
23 years ago Featured

it is heartbreaking to see kids out there in the cold. city hall needs to wake up and start caring about actual people instead of just condos.

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Linda Hughes
24 years ago Featured

my heart breaks for those families. how can we let this happen in 2015?? do something ontario.

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Mike Tate
24 years ago Featured

Ridiculous that in a city like Toronto we have so many people on the streets. Fix it now.