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Stop the Cuts - Save Shelter Beds!

Stop the Cuts - Save Shelter Beds!

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Started by Anonymous 15 years, 6 months ago
With a record 76,549 people on the wait list for affordable housing in Toronto and income supports at record low levels, the City of Toronto is proposing to slash spending on shelter beds for people who are homeless. This will mean a cut of approximately 100 beds per night as well as a cut to food. The shelter system is already inadequate and unable to meet the current need. Out of the Colds are being overwhelmed. Further cuts will mean serious risk and injury for people. We the undersigned demand that no cuts to shelter be made and call on the City to stop the cuts to services

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Reached 250 supporters

February 12, 2011

February 6, 2011

The scale of this response has secured us a meeting with the municipal budget office to discuss these proposed reductions. I am currently drafting a formal brief that details the immediate risks these cuts pose to the shelter system.

Reached 100 supporters

February 4, 2011

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Linda Whitaker
15 years ago Featured

My son works at one of these shelters and says they are already turning people away every single night. Cant imagine how bad it will get if they take more beds away.

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Mike Khan
15 years ago Featured

Ridiculous. Toronto is becoming unaffordable for everyone and now this? Stop the cuts now.

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Robert Wilkinson
15 years ago Featured

keep the beds open. winters are brutal here and u cant just leave people to die on the street.

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David Shaw
15 years ago Featured

DO NOT CUT THE FOOD BUDGET. These people have nothing else.

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Sarah Rahman
15 years ago Featured

This is honestly heartless. People are literally freezing outside and the city wants to cut beds? shame on them.

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Jessica Pearce
15 years ago Featured

The city has money for other things but not for basic human survival. Just sick.

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