11-27-2021, 05:13 PM
(11-27-2021, 03:12 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: They didn't bulldoze it down. Does anybody read. The people took their personal belongings. What was left behind was loaded in the bucket of a front end loader and taken away.
That mess was there for a.long time and needed to be removed. It is not an appropriate spot for people to have a make shift camp. Did you see the human excrement everywhere?
Yeah as a near-daily passerby of this particular encampment, it was a pretty bad situation. And to that end, there must be room for some debate as to what to do about situations like this. I don't think it's fair to call the Region evil or imply the police were some masterminds behind this without getting a better sense of the facts leading up to it. And it leads me to a question I've been wrestling with as I've followed the Toronto encampment evictions this summer and now this one: if there truly is shelter space available, are these kinds of encampments acceptable? There are negative consequences from allowing them to exist, but I also understand that shelters and even affordable housing come with their own issues that do lead some in the unhoused population to shun them. I don't pretend to have solutions (although ultimately I think 95% of the solution is just building more affordable/free housing) but I would like to hear more from the Region to better understand this situation before condemning them. I will readily admit communication was sorely lacking here though so the Region can at least be faulted for that.