Supporters of the CONC Men's Shelter (850/854 Bloor St. West)

Yes to shelters, social housing and community supports in our neighbourhood!

It is so important to create safe and supportive spaces in our communities.

This will be good for the community, we need more places where men who have lost the lives they had and are trying to get back on their feet.

The last thing I want is for one of my neighbours to die this winter because they weren't able to access the shelter space that would have protected them from the elements. Thank heavens this shelter is opening around the corner from my house. We desperately need it. Shelters in the city are currently over capacity and the number of people seeking shelter is steadily increasing. Add to that the fact that shelters have been closing across the city (and even more are facing closure), and you're looking a situation that will prove deadly unless something is done. Lives were lost last winter, and the shelter situation will only be worse this winter unless more spaces are added. Of course, the real solution to this problem is to build more subsidized housing, but the need is so great and we are so far behind in addressing it, that emergency shelter spaces are critically necessary in the interim. It's a life or death situation, and I don't want my neighbours freezing to death on sidewalks this winter, or burning to death while trying to keep warm. Welcome to the neighbourhood. :)

There should be nothing but unbridled support for these social initiatives.

I support the new shelter

I am a resident in this neighbourhood and I welcome this much needed new shelter.

It's important that fear and racism do not halt our impede providing shelter, food and resources to the homeless in the Annex and Bloorcourt areas.

This is a great idea. Let's make it happen!

This is absolutely the right location for this badly needed contribution to an emergency housing situation

Keeping homeless people from sleeping on the streets - especially during winter - should be the public's #1 priority. 30 beds will make a difference.

Winter is coming. Let's work together to keep all our fellow citizens alive this time around, please?

This is much needed!

The need for more shelters is necessary and urgent with the coming cold months!

I support the opening of this shelter.

I am a Toronto resident, and I fully support the opening of a new homeless shelter in the Bloor/Ossington Neighbourhood.

I hope permanant housing is in the works-that is what is really needed

Having grown up in the community, I saw firsthand how the area was transformed as a result of the initiatives of the Centre. When I was a kid, Christie Pits was somewhere you didn't go after dark due to gang violence. The LOFT kitchen, a social enterprise opened by the Centre, created an opportunity for those stuck in the gang life to work, get food and be part of the community. Today, Christie Pits is safe day and night and is a wonderful place for young families to bring their children. I fully support this initiative!

I support this movement fully,

This is so great and so necessary - people who can't see the need for it evidently don't understand anything about the needs of folks who live below the poverty line.