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From YouTube: Planning and Housing Committee - January 22, 2019
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Planning and Housing Committee, meeting 1, January 22, 2019
Agenda and background materials:
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Meeting Navigation:
0:10:13 - Call to order
Agenda Items:
0:13:09 - PH1.1 - Election of Vice Chair - Planning and Housing Committee (Ward All)
0:14:38 - PH1.2 - Declaring Toronto’s Homelessness and Housing Crisis a State of Emergency (Ward All)
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We
will
have
a
presentation
on
what
are
the
topics
that
staff
have
been
working
on?
What
are
the
things
coming
down
the
pipeline
that
we
have
to
concentrate
and
look
forward
to
working
on
over
the
next
year,
so
there
will
be
a
full
presentation
on
some
of
the
things
that
we
might
expect
and
that
we
we
will
be
working
on
in
this
committee
over
the
next
year.
A
So
today
we
have
I'd
like
to
start
by
informing
that
for
those
in
the
room
with
us,
the
screen
at
the
back
of
the
room
provides
real-time
updates
concerning
where
we
are
in
the
agenda
and
what's
coming
up
next,
you
can
also
follow
the
agenda
and
the
bait
on
your
computer
tablet
or
smartphone
at
wroc,
a
council
and
I'd
like
to
acknowledge
the
land.
We
are
meeting
on.
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It's
the
traditional
territory
of
many
nations,
including
the
Mississauga's
of
the
credit
of
Anishinaabe
ship
away
and
huda,
nashoni
and
the
wind
at
people's
and
is
now
home
to
many
diverse
First,
Nations,
Inuit
and
Metis
people.
We
also
acknowledge
that
Toronto
is
by
treaty
13,
with
a
Mississauga's
of
the
credit
I
would
like
now
to
run
by
the
agenda.
We
have
one
item
on
the
agenda
with
the
election
of
Vice,
Chair,
Planning
and
Housing
Committee,
which
I
would
hold
and
up
sorry
can
I.
Have
the
sorry
I
skipped
a
couple
steps.
A
So
now
we
will
have
the
run
through
the
agenda
election
of
Vice
Chair
and
planning
and
Housing
Committee,
so
I'll
hold
that
because
I'll
place
a
motion
to
have
the
letter
from
councillor
Christian,
wong-tam
and
board
perks,
added
to
the
agenda,
all
those
in
favor,
seeing
none
that
carries
so
going
back
to
the
election
of
Vice,
Chair,
Planning
and
Housing
Committee.
Are
there
any
nominations
for
Vice
Chair
of
the
planning
and
Housing
Committee.
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Okay,
so
the
next
item
is
the
item
that
we
just
added
to
the
agenda,
which
is
the
Claire
in
Toronto's,
homelessness
and
housing
crisis.
A
state
of
emergency
and
I
would
ask
if
there's
anybody
in
the
room
that
would
be
interested
in
making
a
deputation
on
this
item.
That
approaches
the
clerk's
and
please
submit
their
name,
and
so
we
can
start
by
discussing
the
item
and.
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D
My
love
good
morning,
everybody
members
of
the
committee
good
morning-
welcome
to
consumer
brat
bath
Bradford,
DC
TTC,
champion
Annabelle
out
the
house
in
champion,
and
all
the
members
of
this
committee
who
are
elected
to
represent
us
welcome
to
2019
it's
a
it's
gonna
be
a
very
interesting
year
and
I
had
to
agree
with
all
the
members
here
today
that
we
are
facing
a
housing
crisis.
We
cannot
allow
any
other
men
or
women
to
die
on
the
streets.
D
Last
week,
I
attended
I
feel
sorry
I'm
a
moment
to
reflect
on
the
dead
of
a
woman
who
died
not
on
your
city
alleyway,
and
it
was
really
tragic
to
see
that
happening
in
our
in
our
city.
That
is
so
rich
and
full
of
housing
going
up
everywhere,
but
there
is
no
real
or
affordable
housing.
There
is
the
trend.
Affordable
housing
is
a
joke
to
qualify
for
it.
D
I
cannot
dream
in
my
audience,
paycheck
to
qualify,
I
want
to
say
thanks
for
being
in
Toronto
housing
and
I'm,
paying
my
sweat
of
work
by
coming
here
and
speaking
up
for
the
voiceless
I
can't.
We
cannot
allow
this
happen
again.
So
I
want
to
commend
the
officer
they
may
or
Tory
who
are
listening
at
the
back
corner
over
there.
Please
take
the
message
seriously
that
we
cannot
I
love
another
man
or
woman
or
child
to
die
on
our
streets.
D
Last
week,
our
in
piece,
the
razors
20%
housing
allowance.
We
don't
get
that
I
was
a
possible
tower
for
wake
up
dude.
What
are
you
doing
to
us?
So
I
want
to
say
that
I
want
him
by
people
the
community
to
come
to
the
police
board
on
Thursday,
because
we're
gonna
talk
about
the
1.2
billion
dollars,
and
this
is
important
because
the
pressure
that
on
the
police
project
affects
all
the
departments
and
services
or
the
city
delivery.
D
So
I
want
to
ask
you,
please
any
member
of
this
committee
or
members
of
the
public
to
come
to
the
board
on
Thursday
1:00
p.m.
I
will
get
I
will
look
forward
to
see
you
there
or
all
of
you
because
he's
important.
What
have
we
had
to
prioritize
either?
It's
highly
polished
costs
or
versus
housing
and
support
and
shelter
in
and
not
to
mourn.
Another
human
being.
Thank
you
very
much.
Thank.
A
D
E
Frontline
workers
have
told
us
for
the
last
decade
how
the
system
was
crumbling,
how
they
couldn't
get
their
clients,
housing
or
into
shelters,
and
unfortunately,
nothing
really
happened
in
January
of
2017,
the
out
of
the
cold
for
the
first
time
in
what
was
then
their
30-year.
History
began
turning
people
away
and
it
was
gut-wrenching
and
we
realized
that
we
couldn't
do
this
alone
and
when
we
got
together
with
all
sorts
of
religious
groups
and
everybody
from
different
faiths,
we
sat
in
a
room
just
like
we
are
now
and
we
realized.
There's.
E
Some
people
were
running
food
banks.
Some
people
were
running
meal
programs.
Some
people
were
running
out
of
the
cult
and
it
simply
wasn't
enough
in
order
to
move
the
dial
in
order
for
something
substantial
to
happen.
To
reverse
this
tide,
we
needed
the
city,
we
needed
the
Ontario
government
and
we
needed
the
federal
government
to
get
involved
and
to
do
something.
E
Nothing,
unfortunately,
has
really
changed.
What
keeps
happening
is
that
we
keep
expanding
the
emergency
component
of
the
shelter
system,
which
means
anytime
you
do
that
that
that
means
there's
a
problem
in
your
shelter
system,
and
it
also
means
that
there
is
a
problem
you're,
essentially
the
way
that
your
housing,
these
people
I've
been
I'm
into
my
14th
year.
At
the
end
of
the
cold
I've
known
some
people
for
over
a
decade,
I
have
co-chairs
who've
been
doing
this
for
20
years.
E
There's
one
man
who's
been
doing
it
for
thirty
years
and
when
he
goes
to
his
out
of
the
cold,
and
he
walks
in
he's
like
a
celebrity
among
the
guests.
That
tells
you
that
something
is
severely
wrong
when
he
walks
into
a
room.
No
one
should
know
him.
There
shouldn't
be
a
guest.
This
shelters
are
not
to
be
used
as
housing
and
that's
essentially
what
has
happened.
E
There
are
a
hundred
and
eighty-one
thousand
people
on
the
waiting
list
for
social
housing.
We
have
shuddered
I,
don't
know
how
many
thousands
of
TCH
C
units,
because
they
were
in
a
they
just
weren't
livable
and
although
we've
stopped
closing
them.
What
I'm
hearing
about
two
weeks
ago
from
a
social
worker
was
that
one
of
her
clients
came
to
her
and
asked
to
be
removed
from
their
and
into
a
shelter,
because
the
conditions
were
so
horrid.
E
This
is
a
situation
that
we're
dealing
with
and
we
need
to
build
social
housing
and
supportive
housing
in
a
manner
that
we
did
in
the
heyday
of
the
city,
when
five
thousand
units
were
being
built
with
the
cooperation
of
three
levels
of
government.
That's
the
only
way
that
we're
going
to
get
out
of
this
it's
to
build
our
way
out
and
the
situation
just
keeps
getting
worse.
E
There's
overcrowding
there's
over
capacity
issues
we
at
the
end,
even
at
the
end
of
the
Colts,
we're
supposed
to
be
the
overflow
shelters
and
when
there
is
capacity
issues
when
there
is
crowding
issues.
Essentially
what
happens
is
people
that
have
challenges
won't
come
indoors,
so
you've
got
people
in
parks.
You've
got
them
in
ravines.
You've
got
them
under
the
bridges
under
the
Gardner.
That's
why
so?
We've
got
to
start
tackling
this
and
we've
got
to
start
taking
steps
because
people
are
dying
and
we
have
all
sorts
of
people.
It's
gut-wrenching.
E
E
C
E
I
also
see
seniors
like
there's
one
man
I
just
can't
get
out
of
my
mind,
he's
been
with
us
for
years,
he's
gotta
be
in
his
early
70s
he's
completely
emaciated.
He
needs
help
like
he
shouldn't
be.
When
you
start
to
look
at
each
person
in
these
overflow
shelters
and
in
the
shelter
system,
none
of
them
should
be
there.
They
need
supports,
they
need
supportive
housing.
A
Thank
You
councillor,
Fletcher,
I
I,
do
have
a
question.
I
agree
with
you,
I
usually
say
when
we,
when
the
city
has
to
talk
about
adding
shelter
beds,
we're
failing
because
I
consider
that
a
failure,
if
we
have
to
add
shelter
beds,
is
because
we're
not
doing
a
good
job
in
housing.
People
properly
we're
tackling
a
lot
of
these
issues.
I
mean
this
year
alone.
We're
having
three
hundred
million
dollars
being
invested
again
on
TCH,
see
were
building
housing,
we're
building
supportive
housing.
You
know
we're.
A
We
have
about
two
hundred
units
under
construction
right
now,
not
enough,
but
what
tools
can
we
talk
about?
That
could
help
you
as
a
partner
of
ours,
to
have
immediate
impact,
because
we
have
a
situation
right
now
that
our
shelter
and
our
respite
centers
have
increased
in
in
usage
by
80
percent
in
the
last
two
years.
Eighty
percent,
so
we've
had
an
increase
in
usage
about
eighty
percent.
So
what
tools
can
I?
Can
we
talk
about
here?
A
What
tools
can
we
talk
with
our
provincial
and
and
federal
partners
that
that
would
make
immediate
to
have
an
immediate
impact?
Because
you
know
we
know
that
it's
supportive
housing
and
housing
as
a
solution,
but
it's
gonna
take
time.
I
can't
build
a
housing
in
a
week
right,
so
it's
gonna
take
time.
So
can
you
share
with
us
what
could
be
some
of
the
tools
to
the
frontline
staff
that
that
we
need
to
be
talking
about?
We.
E
Need
to
start
building,
we
didn't
have
a
choice:
the
city.
Unfortunately,
there
was
no
housing
being
built
and
TCH
see
was
going
down.
You
know
the
we
didn't
have
a
choice.
We
had
to
keep
expanding
the
shelter
system.
That
is
a
result
of
that,
so
I
mean
if
we
had
been
building
the
social
and
supportive
housing
along
the
way
we
wouldn't.
E
So
right
now
we
need
to
open
up.
We
need
to
open
worry,
we
have
substandard
shelters
and
it's
a
second
tier
of
shelters,
and
what
we
need
to
do
is
to
provide
proper
accommodation.
We
need
to
get
the
city,
the
Ontario
government
and
the
federal
government
to
open
up
buildings
for
us
that,
and
there
can't
be
there-
has
to
be
caps
on
the
number
of
people
that
you're
gonna
have
50
56,
not
100,
not
200.
We've
got
to
open
up
these
places
so.
A
One
of
the
things
that
we
used
as
a
pilot
last
year
was
as
actually
housing
allowances
right
from
the
homes
to
good
program.
We
had
housing
allowances
and
I
thought
it
was
very
interesting.
The
previous
deputing
that,
yes,
our
colleagues
up
the
street,
increase
their
own
housing
allowance
by
20%,
so
would
housing
allowances
would
be
us
asking
for
more
housing
allowances
from
our
partners.
Would
that
be
a
tool
that
could
help
you
yeah.
E
E
A
F
F
F
What
I
see
coming
through
Park
is
a
lot
of
homeless
people.
They
are
living
on
the
streets
and
it's
not
nice
and
I,
don't
like
it.
If
there
was
something
that
I
could
do,
I
would
do
it
because
I
am
a
heartfelt
person
and
what
I
heard
out
there
this
morning
was
not
nice
and
I'm
very
cheerful.
When
I
hear
things
like
that
yesterday,
when
I
heard
that
I
was
coming
down
here,.
F
Why
are
people
raising
money
for
hydro
and
everything
else
when
these
people
are
living
on
the
streets
and
the
government's
pocketing
money
and
they
should
be
building
beds
and
never
mind
conceals
for
Ontario
Place,
never
mind
other
money
for
other
things
they
should
be
from
every
year.
They
know
winter's
coming
every
single
year
winter's
coming,
and
yet
they
wait
to
the
last
minute
and
there's
people
dying
on
the
streets.
F
F
There
has
to
be
a
plan
for
marks
to
March
and
I.
Don't
see
any
plan
out
there,
it's
just
they
wait
to
the
last
minute
to
do
something
and
people
die,
and
it's
like
I
see
the
government
doing
nothing
until
the
last
minute
and
then
all
these
people
are
coming
out
to
help
and
trying
to
get
food
and
sandwiches
and
stuff
together
and
yet
they've
got
a
whole
year
and
they
know
winter's
coming
these
beds
could
be
made
up.
Places
could
be
built
for
these
people
and
I.
Don't
understand
why
or
where.
F
F
F
A
G
I'll
try
to
be
brief
and
focused
so
I
mean
those
of
you
know
nice
to
meet
you
counselor,
the
rest
of
you
all
know
me
so
I
guess
what
I
want
to
say.
First
of
all,
I'm
representing
the
shelter
and
housing
justice
Network,
which
is
a
significantly
large
group.
That's
that's
growing
quickly
that
we
and
it's
a
result
of
people
working
front
line
and
experiencing
homelessness
that
are
seeing
seeing
just
dramatic,
dramatic
escalation
in
the
situation.
G
So
we
do
see
it
as
an
emergency
and
I
want
to
say
that
we've
we've
gone
we've
gotten
a
far
away
from
30
years
ago
and
20
years
ago,
when
we
thought
it
was
a
disaster,
then
last
winter
you
you
would
have
known
about
the
advocacy
we
did
to
try
to
get
the
Armory
open,
etc,
etc,
and
that
has
grown
into
now.
A
second.
What
I
would
call
a
second-tier
emergency
shelter
system
that
includes
the
overnight
drop
ins,
nine
respite
sites
and
the
out
of
the
cold
program.
G
Because
we
feel
that
we
have
not
been
heard
from
the
senior
level
of
council,
a
few
few
people
resorted
to
doing
secret
video
footage
that
is
going
to
hit
the
air
airways
at
noon
and
the
toronto
star
has
an
article
today
and
that
is
to
show
the
extremity
of
the
conditions
and
it's
not
about
the
agencies
or
the
operators
of
the
site.
It's
not
about
the
workers.
In
fact,
QP
79
was
here
earlier
to
support
the
issues,
we're
raising
it.
G
It's
it's
a
it's
a
disaster.
It's
the
only
way
to
put
it
and
in
the
in
Toronto's
emergency
plan,
an
emergency
is
defined
as
a
situation
that
constitutes
a
danger
of
major
proportions
that
could
result
in
serious
harm
to
persons
and
I'm
a
nurse,
and
but
you
don't
have
to
be
a
nurse
to
see
the
serious
harm
that
has
happened
to
people.
People's
lifespan
is
shortened.
The
average
age
of
a
homeless
person's
death
is
48
or
49.
G
G
The
city
needs
to
say
that
I
hope
that
council
will
say
that
that
it's
an
extraordinary
circumstance
when
you
have
approximately
8,000
people
in
an
emergency,
shelter
system
and
they're
stuck
there
because
of
the
social
housing
waitlist,
and
then
we
now
we
now
actually
have
1,050
people
1050
that
are
staying
on
floors
or
mats
or
cots
in
this
second
tier
system
and
some
of
the
images
look
like
post,
Hurricane,
Katrina
and,
and
we
need
help
we
need
help
from
outside
to
deal
with
this.
But
at
the
city
level.
G
I
really
do
feel
that
the
emergency
planning
committee
of
the
city
should
be
meeting
and
doing
very
specific
things
calling
in
the
Red
Cross
to
assist
figuring
out
how
to
pull
resources
from
other
departments
to
reallocate
them
to
work
on
the
shelter
emergency,
including,
for
example,
Public
Health.
There's
absolutely
no
reason
why
public
health
reserves
can't
be
be
employed
and
I
say
that,
because
on
Sunday-
and
this
is
what
brought
me
to
tears
out
there
on
Sunday
I
had
to
help
wheel.
G
So
so,
and
that
is
not
I
was
shocked
by
that,
but
that's
not
a
rare
situation,
so
why
why
we
are
not
deploying
more
health
resources
in
the
shelter,
but
also
the
capacity
issues.
The
capacity
issues
have
to
be
spoken
to
I
was
ok
with
one
of
the
domes
opening
and
having
100
people
in
it
as
a
test,
but
within
weeks
we
knew
that
that
wasn't
going
to
work.
G
So
all
I
ask
you
to
youngster
I'll
wind
up,
so
there
are
very
specific
measures
that
the
city
could
do
now,
and
one
of
them
will
be
council
endorsing
a
state
of
emergency
declaration,
the
wording
that
the
councillors
have
prepared,
calling
for
external
help,
but
locally
deploying
resources
and
opening
up
more
facilities.
Thank
you.
G
Well,
I'd,
like
I'd
like
this,
the
city
to
respect
international
rights
with
respect
to
squatters
and
not
move
to
eviction
under
the
Gardner.
There
are
other
measures:
I
spent
Saturday
under
the
Gardner
there's
other
measures
that
have
to
be
taken.
There's
people
internationally
that
will
work
on
that
I'd
like
you
to
increase
the
rent
but
increase
your
rent.
A
bank
I'd
like
you
to
deploy
resources
to
fast
track
fast
track
as
much
as
you
can
on
measures
that
are
currently
in
the
works.
G
Our
organization
we're
a
network
right.
We
don't
have
staff
like
your
network,
a
coalition,
but
we've
got
legal
clinics
and
there's
a
lot
of
networks
in
the
city
that
could
be
working
on
that
for
sure,
I
will
say
that
I
think
what
we're
presenting
to
you
today
in
terms
of
the
footage
suggests
that
that
senior
officials
should
be
asked
to
do
it.
G
What
I
would
call
a
disaster
tour
visiting
every
single
respite
site
and
location
to
look
at
some
immediate
measures
that
can
be
taken
to
toilets
route
of
out
of
order
at
one
of
the
sites?
I
think
immediate
measures
should
be
taken
to
the
crowd
to
bring
down
the
capacity
in
some
of
the
facilities,
and
you
have
to
do
that
by
opening
the
others
and
the
the
dolt
dome
number
two
and
dome
number
three
are
not
due
to
open
till
March
or
April
and
whereas
dome
number
four
and
where
is
anything
for
scarborough
north
yorkshire
topical.
C
H
You,
my
name,
is
AJ
withers
I'm,
a
PhD
candidate
in
Social
Work
at
York,
University
I'm,
representing
the
Ontario
coalition
against
poverty
good
morning,
so
crystal
Papineau,
an
indigenous
man,
his
name
is
hasn't
been
made.
Public
hang
Bo
and
Tabitha.
Lewis
are
just
four
of
the
people
that
have
died
this
year.
H
H
There
have
been
a
number
of
other
really
tragic
situations
at
the
respite.
There
are
a
thousand
people
staying
at
those
respite
sites.
Last
year
there
were
800,
it
was
a
crisis.
Last
year
we
couldn't
imagine
last
year
that
there
would
be
a
thousand
staying
in
those
spaces.
Now
this
is
a
crisis
that
yeah
was
unimaginable
a
year
or
two
years
ago.
It
is
an
absolute
emergency
and
I
want
to
implore
you
to
declare
it
such
we
need
two
thousand
beds
in
2019
and
the
fastest.
H
H
H
The
situation
on
the
streets
and
in
the
respite
and
in
the
shelter's
clearly
demonstrate
how
deeply
the
city
has
failed
and
we
need
desperately
to
build
housing.
We
need
desperately
to
enforce
the
bylaw
around
Airbnb.
We
need
desperately
to
support
tenants.
There
are
many
many
things
that
we
need
to
do
and
the
most
urgent
thing
that
we
need
to
do
to
begin
to
deal
with.
H
A
I
Thank
you.
It's
good
to
be
back.
There
used
to
be
more
of
you.
I
missed
it.
So
I
hear,
of
course,
is
the
member
of
parliament
for
spine
at
Fort,
York
downtown,
but
also
as
a
resident
and
activist
on
this
phallus
is
as
a
citizen
of
the
city
but
I'm,
also
the
parliamentary
secretary
on
housing
so
I'm
to
answer
questions
as
to
where
the
new
federal
programs
can
and
should
be,
making
a
difference
in
the
city
and
also
to
respond
to
the
letter
that
was
released
today.
I
There
are,
of
course,
jurisdictional
issues
which
concern
us
all,
in
particular
at
the
provincial
level
right
now,
but
many
of
the
programs
have
been
designed
to
work
around
these
sorts
of
hostilities,
which
some
provincial
governments
are
bringing
to
the
housing
file
and
we're
prepared,
if
necessary,
to
deal
directly
with
the
city
with
or
with
the
province
on
this.
On
this
issue,
I
would
say
that
that
that
well,
we
have
obviously
doubled
the
amount
of
money
through
the
homeless
partnership
strategy.
I
Well,
we've
repro
filed
it
to
get
more
into
prevention
methods
to
help
stop
the
flow
of
new
populations
into
homelessness,
and
while
we
have
put
new
dollars
on
the
table
for
the
construction,
repair
and
subsidy
of
housing,
those
dollars
aren't
making
the
impact
in
Toronto.
We
want
them
to
make
and
we're
prepared
to
sit
down
with
the
city
to
make
the
differences
that
need
to
be
made.
I'm
gonna
say
this,
though,
as
as
a
longtime
advocate
as
a
longtime
city
councilor,
who
voted
every
time
in
favor
of
this.
I
If
you
do
not
create
a
rooming
house
bylaw
that
is
comprehensive
and
citywide,
you
will
not
solve
this
problem.
I've
just
completed
a
year-long
study
across
the
country
on
rooming
houses,
supportive
housing
and
the
kind
of
housing
that
makes
a
difference
in
reducing
homeless
populations
rather
than
managing
the
crisis.
You
cannot
do
it
without
group
homes.
You
will
not
do
it
without
grood
homes,
the
homeless,
people,
people
that
lived
experience
will
tell
you
they
do
not
go
into
shelters
because
they
do
not
feel
safe
in
shelters.
I
I
No
matter
how
many
you
build,
you
need
a
comprehensive
citywide,
rooming
house
bylaw,
so
that
group,
homes
and
and
and
and
supportive
housing
programs
can
be
constructed
right
across
the
city
in
every
corner
of
the
city,
because
the
homeless
come
from
every
corner
in
the
city
and
it's
time
the
city
got
serious
about
that,
and
this
notion
that
you
can
warehouse
homeless
individuals
in
large
institutional
care
facilities.
It
is
inhumane,
it
does
not
respond
to
the
housing
rights
and
needs
of
individuals.
I
In
these
circumstances-
and
it
has
got
to
change,
it-
has
got
to
change
the
cities
in
this
country
that
have
got
to
functional
zero.
The
provinces
that
have
got
to
functional
zero
on
homelessness
have
done
it
by
using
the
analysis
which
is
present
in
the
sector
to
deal
with
homelessness
as
a
function
of
poverty,
but
also
a
reality
of
the
medical
failure.
I
Yet
you
don't
ask,
don't
tell
policy,
don't
ask
don't
tell
policies,
are
they're
not
to
report
immigration
status
to
the
federal
government,
they're,
not
there
to
prevent
good
public
policy
based
on
good
data
being
implemented,
and
so,
when
you
refuse
to
understand
the
flow
into
homelessness
by
not
asking
people
where
they're
coming
from
ie,
are
they
being
discharged
from
incarceration?
Are
they
coming
from
mental
health?
Hospitals
are
they
coming
out
of
the
child
welfare
system?
Are
they
coming
from
the
city
or
are
they
coming
from
the
province
or
they?
Where
are
they
coming
from?
I
When
you
don't
have
prevention
strategies,
the
population
grows,
and
so
they
don't
ask
tell
policy
which
I
said
as
a
city,
councilor
was
not
there
to
deny
people
service,
it
was
there
to
facilitate
people,
services
and
the
way
it's
being
applied
in
the
homeless.
Shelters
is
stopping
us
from
getting
additional
resources
at
the
federal
level
to
address
specific
population
needs,
for
example,
there's
a
new
indigenous
housing
program
emerging
out
of
the
federal
system
that
is
designed
to
make
an
impact
in
urban
centers.
I
J
I
The
call
in
of
itself
doesn't
create
a
legislative
response,
but
what
we
are
prepared
to
do
is
sit
down
as
the
federal
government
to
review
what
your
strategy
is
and
bring
the
federal
resources
required
to
deal
with
this
issue
we're
prepared
and
when
we're
framing
it
as
a
human
rights
issue,
is
in
legislation.
That's
coming
this
year,
we're
prepared
to
deal
with
it
the
way
we
dealt
with
it
last
year.
Okay,
tell
us
what
you
need:
we're
prepared
to
salvage
answer
my
questions.
J
I
J
To
the
table,
you
said
you're
prepared
to
come
to
the
table
and
help
us
recently.
The
City
of
Toronto
declared
11
sites
the
sites
where
we
want
to
build
social
and
affordable
housing.
Is
your
government
prepared
to
partner
to
make
sure
that
that
is
all
socially
owned
housing?
We're
prepared
you
put
the
money
up
to
help
us?
Do
that?
Will
you
bid
alongside
the
private
sector,
to
make
that
something
like
say
the
st.
Lawrence
Housing,
the.
I
Nephew
bed,
the
National
co-investment
fund
is
in
and
the
CMHC
as
it
talks
with
the
city
right
now
on
its
housing
program
and
we're
prepared
to
come
with
with
a
specific
dollar
stream,
specifically
for
Toronto.
It's
substantial
dollars
for
those
for
those
sites.
I
I
haven't
reviewed
the
actual
application
that
Koch
at
CMHC,
which
the
crown
Corporation
and
does
it
with
an
arm's
length.
I
But
the
minister's
office
can
confirm
that
the
city
of
Toronto
and
the
federal
government
heard
conversation
about
the
city's
Housing
Strategy
to
get
this
funded
in
the
same
way
that
we
stepped
up
at
200
Madison.
In
the
same
way,
we
stepped
up
on
the
waterfront
in
the
same
way
we
stepped
up
in
your
quest
and
the
co-investment
fund
is,
is-
is
available
to
the
City
of
Toronto
and
we're
in
active
active
communication
right
now
and
negotiating
the
for
the
final
components
of
a
significant
investment
to
the
City
of
Toronto.
I
I
J
I
J
I
But
I
also
just
like
to
clarify
that
the
the
the
the
federal
housing
spend
is
not
unique
to
CMHC.
There
are
federal
housing
programs,
for
example
Indigenous
Affairs,
which
aren't
calculating
the
number
you
received
there
and
I
wouldn't
have
those
that
handled,
but
we
topped
that
up
by
two
and
a
half
billion
dollars
as
well
last
year.
Thank.
I
It
relates
specifically
to
housing
I'm,
not
quite
sure
how
the
declaration
would
compel
the
minister
that
I
work
for
families
and
children's
social
services
to
move
forward,
but
there
is
an
emergency
protocol
in
place.
Cities
nominate,
they
request
the
provinces
and
the
provinces,
evaluate
and
nominate
to
the
federal
government.
We
have
been
prepared
to
have
those
conversations.
Last
year
we
were
prepared
to
happen
this
year.
C
I
On
a
project-by-project
jurisdiction,
my
jurisdiction
basis,
so
that
the
the
co-investment
fund,
which
was
made
active
in
in
May,
has
just
started.
I
can
get
the
exact
dollars.
One
of
the
challenges
we've
had
is
that
it
takes
a
while
for
the
the
projects
to
get
through
regulatory
approval
process.
You
know
when
there's
only
application
comes
and
it
takes
a
couple
years.
I
So,
while
the
money
has
been
activated
this
year,
the
dollars
don't
flow
immediately,
but
in
the
previous
three
years
in
the
previous
three
years,
funding
new
federal
funding
has
reached
a
million
different
households
in
Canada,
with
subsidy
grants
and
loans
to
get
housing
built.
It
was
in
Newfoundland
last
week,
opening
up
a
supportive
housing
unit
for
youth.
I
was
we're
in
Hamilton
today,
opening
up
another
facility
for
for
seniors.
I
Is
a
third
is
a
seventeen
point,
two
billion
dollar
fund
over
the
next
ten
years,
the
bills
on
top
of
the
five
billion
dollars
we've
invested
of
that
fund.
It's
it's
up
to
projects
to
determine
whether
or
not
the
coop
or
supportive
housing
or
public
housing.
We
we
don't
have
a
car
vote
for
anyone,
particularly
sector,
but
all
sectors.
You
don't.
I
I
Have
worked
with
the
CHF
C
Canada
to
make
sure
the
program
will
build
coops
and
we're
working
with
the
coop
Federation
right
now
to
build
coops,
there's
no
specific
delineation
for
for
applicants,
there's
no
separated
programs
in
terms
of
supportive
housing,
co-op
housing,
because
in
the
past
it's
it's
a
global
program
together.
I.
C
And
in
order
to
increase
co-op
housing
stock
that
doesn't
exist
in
that
way.
Now
with
this
fund,
no,
we
firming
that
okay,
the
I
understand
what
you're
saying
about
how
zoning
and
getting
things
moving
it's
very
hard,
so
having
property
available
and
last
year,
I
did
ask
for
all
of
the
federal
properties
that
are
available
in
Toronto.
Do
you
happen
to
know
what
they
all
are
federal
properties
that
are
owned
by
the
federal
government
here
in
the
city
of
Toronto?
We.
I
Have
a
list
of
surplus
properties
that
we're
withholding
from
Canada
lands
to
put
into
the
housing
systems
so
that
people
can
purchase
it
can
build
on
those
properties?
I
can
get
you
the
list,
that's
being
composed.
So
far,
there
have
been
some
trouble
because
of
the
way
in
which
the
surplus
system
works.
At
the
federal
level,
the
federal
system
has,
over
the
last
12
years,
been
designed
to
deliver
surplus
property
to
market
at
market
rates.
C
C
I
C
I
I
I
No
look:
look
at
the
green
pea
policies.
You
have
here
the
value,
the
market
valuations
to
return
those
pieces
of
property
to
the
housing
division
of
the
city.
Make
those
properties
almost
impossible
to
build
on
we
haven't
prioritized.
Any
order
of
government
is
is,
is
every
order
of
government
has
has
responsibility
to
solve
this
problem
and
we
haven't
priorities
housing.
From
my
perspective,
you.
B
You
very
much
most
of
the
questions
have
already
been
answered.
I
have
one,
can
you
clarify
for
us,
I
was
a
Adam
MP
Vaughn.
Can
you
clarify
for
us?
How
would
it
work
if,
if
the
province
was
not
going
to
respond
to
the
city's
requests
and
and
you,
as
our
federal
representative
and
on
behalf
of
the
federal
government,
was
prepared
to
have
that
formal
dialogue
to
to
bring
to
bear
the
full
force
and
the
wholeness
of
our
two
governments
to
work
together
to
address
the
housing
crisis,
if
the
provincial
government
decided
not
to
respond?
I
I've
heard
from
the
press
conference
today
and
from
reading
the
letters
that
you'd
like
to
meet
with
the
political
leads
on
on
the
housing
files
at
the
city
of
at
the
Government
of
Canada,
and
what
I've
said
to
you
is
that
we're
prepared
to
sit
down
and
figure
out
what
resources
are
available.
How
did
how
to
make
sure
they
land
in
Toronto
and
how
to
utilize
them
to
solve
this
situation?
We
are
committed
to
reducing,
if
not
ending,
homelessness
over
the
next
10
years.
I
I
Our
goal
here
is
not
to
tell
you
how
to
solve
the
problem.
Our
goal
is
to
make
sure
the
resources
are
there
to
facilitate
your
solutions
and
so
bring
us
your
solutions,
and
we
will
work
hard
with
you.
But
I
can
tell
you
having
studied
this
issue
across
the
country.
You
are
not
going
to
reduce
your
homeless
population.
If
you
don't
have
supportive
housing
as
a
critical
component
to
depopulate
your
shelters,
you
will
never
delete
your
shelters
without
supportive
housing.
Supportive
housing
requires
a
licensed
and
regulated
rooming
house
by
law
across
the
city.
I
Every
jurisdiction
in
the
country
that
has
had
success
on
this
file
has
done
that
failure
to
deliver
on
that
critical
piece
of
legislation
is
going
to
thwart
your
attempts
to
solve
the
problem.
You
cannot
warehouse
your
way
out
of
this
issue
and
you
cannot
manage
your
way
out
of
this
issue.
You
have
to
reduce
the
population
of
homeless
people
and
you
do
it
with
strong
income,
supports
strong
zoning
regulation
and
a
critical
strategy
that
deep
populates
your
shelter
rather
than
grows
your
shelter
system
to.
B
Clarify
my
question
is:
is
sorry
that's
just
so
just
to
clarify.
Also
the
the
recommendation
or
letter
is
not
necessarily
for
the
federal
government
to
evaluate
a
City
of
Toronto
plan,
but
rather
to
develop
a
plan
together
in
response
to
a
crisis
than
your
perch,
not
simply
in
Toronto,
although
we're
trying
we
are
naming
it,
but
I
as
as
I
see
it.
This
is
a
crisis.
That's
across
the
country
and
many
other
jurisdictions
as
well.
We're.
B
You,
and
so
the
question
I
have
is,
in
the
absence
of
provincial
active
participation
and
collaboration.
There
are
agreements
that
are
in
place
that
that's
that
stipulate
how
federal
dollars
flow
to
the
province
and
then
are
redistributed,
even
if
they're
named
for
municipalities
in
the
absence
of
provincial
participation
and
collaboration,
how
will
you
get
those
federal
dollars
to
the
city
directly?
Well,.
I
I'd
invite
you
to
take
a
look
at
the
situation
with
the
surgeon
in
in
refugee
and
immigrant
populations
in
your
shelters
last
year,
when
the
province
refused
to
cooperate
or
negotiate
or
talk.
We
went
around
the
province
and
funded
into
the
cities
directly.
Our
preference
in
the
Constitution
and
provincial
federal
relations
dictate
that
we
try
the
province
and
we
will
continue
to
try
and
get
the
Ford
government
onside
with
with
with
with
smart,
intelligent
policies.
I
Removing
rent
control
is
not
one
of
those
policies,
but
voters
of
Ontario
chose
the
government
they
chose
in
the
interim
or
in
in
in
in
response
to
that.
If
the
only
way
to
deal
with
with
it
with
the
situation
in
Toronto
is
to
deal
with
the
City
of
Toronto
directly
I
am
telling
you
right
now
right
here
we
were
prepared
and
deal
with
the
City
of
Toronto
directly.
I
The
co-investment
fund
does
not
require
provincial
matching
dollars
to
be
used
in
Toronto,
and
we
are
in
active
negotiations
with
the
city's
housing
authorities
to
make
sure
the
co-investment
fund
gets
to
work
in
the
city.
We
are
here
to
be
partners
and
to
work
constructively
and,
and
it's
it's
it's
it's
time
to
get
to
work
on
this
and
I.
You
have
my
full
and
and
total
commitment
to
cooperate.
A
Thank
you,
I
I
do
have
I
do
have
a
question.
I
just
want
to
follow
up
on
that.
So
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we
understand
that
the
city
is
in
negotiations
and
has
been
go.
She
since
the
National
Housing
Strategy,
has
been
launched,
which
we
called
on
several
times
and
advocated
strongly
to
have
that
done.
But
right
now
there
are
work
both
for
the
repairs
on
social
housing
and
for
new
sites.
So
there's
active
conversations
at
the
highest
level
to
have
housing
built
to
have
housing
repair
between
the
province.
I
A
You
and
the
big
city
mayors
also
meets
with
your
government
on
a
regular
basis
and
from
what
I
understand.
Housing
is
an
issue
that
is
openly
discussed
not
only
with
our
mayor,
but
actually
with
mayor's
across
the
country,
because,
unfortunately,
this
is
an
issue
that
is
targeting
from
coast
to
coast
to
coast.
I
was.
I
In
Edmonton
last
last
month,
with
the
big
city
mayors
discussing
this
very
issue
and
they're
coming
to
Ottawa
next
two
weeks
from
now
to
renew
the
conversations
about
how
we
can
accelerate
and
amplify
the
program
it
is,
it
is,
is
a
priority
for
our
government.
It's
a
pretty
for
your
level
of
government.
It
works
best
when
the
province
and
the
indigenous
governments
are
at
the
table
simultaneously.
But
in
the
absence
of
other
partners,
we
will
continue
to
talk
directly
with
the
City
of
Toronto
to
achieve
your
housing
strategy
and.
A
I
mean
have
you
seen
an
effort
on
the
part
of
city
I
mean
because
I
recall
even
the
summit
a
year
and
a
half
ago
that
we
had
the
big
city
mayors
again
calling
on
the
the
federal
government
we
had
the
minister
in
there
we
had
a
full
discussion
with
stakeholders
about
housing
about
this
issue
about
how
to
work
together.
Have
we
been
engaged
with
the
other
orders
of
government
to
tackle
this
issue?
The.
I
City
of
Toronto's
voice
has
not
left
the
choir
of
people
singing
for
stronger
housing
policy
in
this
country.
I'd
invite
you
to
talk
to
Mayor
Lisa
helps
a
Victoria
who
has
negotiated
an
end
to
homelessness
over
the
next
three
years
strategy
with
the
federal
government.
They
think
they'll
get
to
functional
zero
over
the
next
three
years.
I
They
have
a
significant
population
of
homeless
individuals,
including
large
tent
cities,
both
in
the
downtown
and
on
the
outskirts
of
that
city,
but
they
have
negotiated
a
comprehensive
agreement
with
the
federal
government
and
their
provincial
government
and
and
and
indigenous
local
governments
and
they're.
Moving
towards
successful
resolution
of
some
very
challenging
issues.
Their
population
was
growing
by
the
same
percentages
as
Toronto
was
and
I.
You
know
it's
it's
it's
it's
it's
a
flexible
program.
We
are
not
dictating
outcomes
or
dictating
forms
of
housing
or
dictating
dynamics
in
this
area.
I
A
Of
the
things
that
we
piloted
last
year
was
actually
the
giving
some
tools
to
our
frontline
staff,
with
housing,
allowances
and
and
when
a
case-by-case,
really
try
to
house
people.
I
know
that
the
housing
benefit
from
the
National
Housing
Strategy
is
not
coming
into
effect
until
next
year,
this
next
year,
if
we
were
to
approach
you
to
have
a
very
targeted
approach
toward
this
issue
using
some
of
these
methods,
you
think
that
is
something
that
we
could
work
with.
The
federal
government.
I
So
part
of
the
National
Housing
Strategy
also
has
a
nine
point:
two
billion
dollar
investment
into
into
the
community
housing
sector.
Those
dollars
are
the
operating
agreements
that
are
being
renewed
and
housing
subsidies
that
are
being
dispensed
across
the
country
in
this
case,
through
the
province
to
Toronto.
We
have
relaxed
the
rules
on
the
homeless
partnership
strategy
around
how
rent
supplements
can
be
used
in
that
program.
Previously,
the
last
government
required
you
only
to
use
them
on
people
with
chronic
homelessness.
I
Only
on
people
who've
been
homeless
for
six
months,
infrequent
users
of
the
shelter
their
restrictive
use
of
those
dollars
was
was
almost
pushed
young
people
in
particular,
but
also
women
into
the
most
dangerous
circumstances
you
can
imagine
before
federal
dollars
would
help
them.
The
reprofiling
of
that
program
now
called
reaching
home,
allows
you
to
use
those
in
preventive
ways
to
in
particularly
address
the
situation
facing
women
and
youth
aging
out
of
care
as
well.
We
have
no
longer.
I
We
will
no
longer
require
you
to
spend
those
dollars
in
private
landlords,
subsidizing
in
some
case
slum
landlords
mortgages.
Instead
of
helping
people
get
housing.
We
have
now
changed
those
rules
based
on
people
that
lived
experience,
cities
and
other
stakeholders
telling
us
that
those
dollars
should
also
be
eligible
used
in
public
housing
complexes
and
non
coops,
and
so
the
subsidies
are
reaching
new
people
in
new
ways
to
focus
on
prevention,
but
also
just
focus
on
permanent.
I
The
other
thing
we've
done,
which
I
think
is
critically
important
on
the
homeless
file,
is
that
will
remove
the
requirement
under
reaching
home
under
HPS
that,
if
you
use
federal
dollars
as
rent
supplement,
you
can't
use
other
forms
of
government
support
to
provide
housing.
In
other
words,
if
you
have
a
drug
treatment
center
and
you
get
a
housing
first
rent
allowance,
all
of
a
sudden,
they
will
pull
that
money.
I
If
there's
healthcare
money
on
the
table,
whether
it's
provincial
federal
or
municipal,
if
there
is
additional
dollars
being
provided,
for
example,
by
by
mental
health
professionals,
are,
if
there's
money
being
provided
by
other
orders
of
government,
Veterans,
Affairs,
Indigenous,
Affairs,
CMHC
and
and
the
HPS
program
would
pull
those
dollars
out
of
the
system
because
you
already
had
a
government
subsidy.
The
new
program
allows
you
to
partner
up
federal
programs,
provincial
programs,
city
programs
and
charitable
programs
and
reward
partnerships
that
work
at
creating
supportive
housing.
I
A
H
Ipsw
I,
don't
know
if
you
can
hear
me,
I
don't
want
to
ask
I,
don't
want
to
hope.
I
want
to
demand
that
you
declare
this
a
crisis.
I
just
want
to
mention
about
this.
Eighty
year
old
woman
that
I'm
dealing
with
Ana
respite
an
80
year
old
should
not
be
in
a
respite.
The
system
has
failed
her.
She
wants
to
die.
She
doesn't
want
to
be
there.
She
sleeps
on
a
chair.
H
H
H
H
There
needs
to
be
changes.
We
need
a
purple
house
and
we
need
you
even
heard
it
before
affordable
housing
support.
We
need
more
support.
I
went
to
another
respite,
there's
a
whole
bunch
of
seniors
that
are
solving
themselves.
They
need
a
PSW
there
like
myself
to
help
them
out
because
the
staff
can't
shower
them.
The
conditions
are
no
different
than
Moss
Park.
From
last
year,
you've
complained
to
the
Ombudsman.
You
complain
to
the
shelter
services.
Nothing
gets
done.
H
It's
the
same
old,
same
old
I'm,
really
disappointed
in
our
mayor,
I'm,
very
disappointed
in
our
merit,
Tory
and
I
wish.
He
was
here
very
dismissive
and
I'm
still
waiting
for
him
to
come.
P
the
homeless.
With
my
grandson
I
spent
two
and
a
half
years.
He
said
he
would
do
this,
so
I
hope
you
do
declare
this
the
state
of
emergency.
That's
all
I
have
to
say
right
now.
A
C
Fletcher,
yes-
and
you
might
not
have
this
here,
but
it
would
be
very
helpful
to
have
it
at
counsel
and
last
year,
when
we
had
our
emergency
debate
about
shelter,
beds
and
I
believe
we
agreed
to
add
quite
a
number
of
new
ones,
including
the
respite.
Centers
I
also
had
a
motion
that
was
passed
by
City
Council,
asking
for
the
properties
that
are
owned
by
the
provincial
government
and
the
federal
government
here
within
the
four
one.
C
Six
boundaries
and
I-
don't
know
if
that's
made
available
or
if
that
would
be
something
available
for
City
Council,
because
we've
heard
how
difficult
it
is
to
find
sites
and
we've
heard
from
MP
Vaughn
that
they're
interested
in
giving
some
of
those
surplus
properties
over
to
housing.
So
I
would
very
much
like
to
know
what
properties
there
are.
A
J
This
this
issue
always
leaves
a
bad
taste
in
everyone's
mouth,
for
the
obvious
reason
that
it's
a
collective
social
failure,
it
is,
as
was
said,
social
murder.
We
are
one
of
the
wealthiest
places
on
earth
in
history
and
yet
we're
constructing
these
domes,
which,
frankly,
my
I
look
like
refugee
camps,
we're
actually
building
refugee
camps
in
the
City
of
Toronto
to
house
people,
because
our
housing
market
and
the
housing
system
has
failed
so
spectacularly
it
doesn't
have
to
be
this
way
there.
J
You
know
within
my
lifetime,
all
three
orders
of
government
got
together
and
built
social
housing
as
a
partnership
between
public
governments,
co-ops
not-for-profits,
mixed
income,
housing,
and
it's
not
as
if
that
model
failed.
That's
actually
the
model
that
is
being
used
in
all
the
successful
cities
in
Europe
for
managing
their
housing
in
cities
like
Stockholm
and
Paris,
and
Berlin
Vienna
that
the
housing
system,
in
many
cases,
houses
not
not
just
people
with
mental
health
issues,
not
just
people
with
low
incomes,
but
the
middle
class
as
well.
J
It's
a
mixed
housing
system,
that's
flexible
and
is
because
it
has
mixed
incomes,
its
self
funding
over
time.
This
is
entirely
possible,
but
our
federal
housing
policy
is
driven
towards
getting
people
to
buy
homes
right
now,
the
Federal
Housing
Agency
CMHC
backstops
half
a
trillion
dollars
in
mortgages.
J
That
means
we
use
our
federal
money
to
encourage
people
to
buy
up
housing,
to
buy
houses
and
and
condos,
which
drives
up
the
price
which
pushes
renters
out,
creates
a
housing
and
homeless
policy.
I,
remember
going
to
two
marches
with
Cathy
and
Adam
and
others
in
the
room
15
years
ago,
where
we
said
no,
the
solution
is
that
the
federal
all
orders
of
government
have
to
put
1%
of
their
budget
into
building
social
housing.
Well,
we
just
heard
that
the
famous
National
Housing
Strategy
is
is
not
there.
J
They
haven't
yet
at
nearly
the
end
of
their
first
mandate,
even
got
to
the
basic
ask
that
that
housing
activists,
including
Adam
Vaughn,
have
been
asking
for
for
20
years.
We
know
our
provincial
government
is
not
stepping
up.
So
what
do
we
do?
We
step
up?
We
step
up
on
Monday.
We
will
launch
a
budget
I'm
going
to
have
my
eye
on
that
budget
for
two
things.
First,
are
we
adequately
funding
the
emergency
band-aid
system
that
we
need
to
fund?
J
Are
we
increasing
it,
so
the
shelter
beds
are
there,
but
two
and
most
importantly,
are
we
increasing
the
amount
of
money
that
we
asked
her
on
Tony
uns
to
contribute
to
us
building,
affordable
and
supportive
housing
in
the
City
of
Toronto?
That's
what
I'm
gonna
be
looking
for
on
Monday
and
it's
not.
There
then
shame
on
us.
J
There
is
a
way
to
solve
this.
There
is
a
way
to
solve
this.
Uncounted
billions
of
dollars
are
being
taken
out
of
Toronto
by
people
who
are
buying
up
land
and
making
short-term
speculative
profits,
developing
them
for
condominium
15,
20
percent.
25
percent
of
the
cost
of
the
project
disappears
to
the
financing
to
the
banks
and
to
the
profit
of
the
developers.
That's
a
quarter
of
the
cost
of
all
housing
being
built
privately
in
Toronto,
goes
away
from
the
housing
market
and
turns
into
profit
for
banks
and
developers.
J
We
as
a
government
don't
need
to
pay
that
25
percent.
We
don't
need
to
have
a
short-term
return
on
investment,
we
can
be
patient,
we
can
just
pay
off
the
the
mortgage
cost
the
financing
cost
of
building
that
over
10
20
years
at
a
very
low
interest
rate.
We
don't
have
to
walk
away
with
a
profit.
We
just
have
to
pay
off
those
debts.
There
is
a
an
ample
opportunity.
There's
land,
there's
the
willingness,
at
least
on
the
part
of
the
public.
Everyone
I
talk
to
says
they're
prepared
to
contribute
to
build
social
housing.
J
The
one
thing
is:
will
this
government
step
up
and
say
for
the
first
time
that
housing
people
who
are
in
dire
need
is
more
important
than
protecting
those
who
already
own
million-dollar
houses
from
a
property
tax
increase?
It's
a
simple
choice
whose
need
is
bigger,
the
person
who
has
no
home
or
the
person
who
owns
a
home
that's
worth
a
million
dollars.
B
Two
deaths
per
week
is
what
we're
averaging
right
now
with
people
who
are
Street
involved
in
those
who
are
living
with
various
states
of
homelessness
by
any
measure.
I
think
that
we
would
call
that
a
emergency
or
crisis.
The
challenge
is
that
I
believe
like
climate
change,
it
has
crept
up
upon
us.
So
it's
something
that
we
have
experienced
over
a
period
of
time
and
it's
something
that
we
actually
could
do
something
about
it,
but
we
didn't.
We
are
now
reading
reaching
this
critical
point.
B
The
biggest
fear
I
have
is
is
the
the
wave
of
homelessness
that
is
about
to
hit
Toronto
coming
up
next
and
that
is
through
renovations.
Of
course,
it's
around
the
fact
that
we
have
a
number
of
active
listings
on
Airbnb
sites
that
are
about
65,000
in
number
on
average.
That
should
not
be
there
that
have
been
that
that
are
off
the
market
for
for
long
term
homes.
It's
the
fact
that
we've
got
14,000
individuals
on
the
supportive
housing
waitlist
and
at
the
rate
of
only
housing
600
average
per
year,
it's
literally
a
death
sentence.
B
We
have
180
1000
people
on
the
waitlist
for
individual
supportive
housing,
which
means,
if
you're
looking
for
a
two-bedroom
from
your
family,
including
a
child
you're,
looking
at
a
wait
close
to
12
years
and
much
longer.
If
you
get
called
at
all
again,
it's
a
death
sentence
and
that's
just
a
managed
problem
that
we
have
now
and
we've
not
been
able
to
apply
all
three
orders
of
government
with
the
wholeness
of
their
government
coming
to
bear
on
finding
a
resolution.
B
The
big
fear
I
have
is
that,
even
if
we
pass
these
recommendations
today
we
get
to
the
floor
of
Council.
We
can
tinker
around
and
perhaps
even
try
to
water
down
the
language,
because
we
don't
want
to
offend
this
person
or
that
person
I'm,
not
sure,
but
my
biggest
fear
is
that
if
we
don't
follow
up
with
true
concrete
actions
with
the
other
orders
government
or
of
just
one
order
of
government
coming
to
the
table,
we're
gonna
be
in
a
we're,
gonna
be
in
bigger
trouble.
B
Then
then,
then,
we
are
in
now
12
months
from
now,
I
think
the
housing
advocates
were
really
clear.
None
of
us
could
have
imagined,
and
even
myself,
who
is
on
the
front
lines
last
year,
trying
to
figure
out
how
do
we?
How
do
we?
How
do
we
stop
the
the
gaps
and
the
bleeding
I?
Never
what
have
imagined
12
months
from
now
that
we're
having
a
bigger
crisis
than
we
than
we
had
last
year,
I
thought
last
year
was
quite
honestly.
Quite
it
was
bad.
B
We
still
have
a
chance
to
turn
this
around
I
believe
this
in
my
heart,
I
believe
that
we
have
just
stopped
collaborating,
stop
coming
to
an
outcome
of
building
the
widest
range
of
social
housing,
and
it's
not
too
late,
but
at
some
point
in
time.
Just
like
climate
change,
just
like
climate
change,
it
will
be
too
late
and
the
body-count
will
simply
be
too
high
and
that's
why
we
need
to
come
back
to
the
fundamental
piece.
Housing
is
a
human
right
by
all
international
standards
of
human
rights
law.
B
We
have
failed
not
just
in
Toronto
and
not
just
Ontario,
but
across
this
country,
and
so
I
don't
want
to
play
the
numbers
game
with
any
other
order
of
government.
That
we've
said
this
or
we
will
contribute
this.
What
I
am
interested
in
and
I
hope
that
you
are
as
well
is
the
outcomes.
Well,
we
have
more
people
housed
by
the
time.
B
We
finish
this
conversation
and
developing
a
truly
funded
action
plan
in
the
future
twelve
months
from
now,
or
are
we
going
to
be
back
twelve
months
from
now
with
a
situation
has
gotten
worse
and
to
me
that
will
be
that
the
measurement
of
success
and
progress,
and
and
not
just
a
declaration
of
words,
but
it
is
important
that
we
start
now
with
this
declaration
and
take
immediate
action
afterwards.
Thank
you.
K
Thank
you
very
much
sure,
as
we've
heard
from
the
deputies
today,
we
know
that
the
city
needs
a
coordinated
response
on
housing.
In
the
past
few
months,
I
personally
have
been
getting
a
deeper
understanding
of
how
people
are
experiencing
homelessness.
We've
attended
a
number
of
vigils
across
the
street
at
Trinity
Church,
with
a
meeting
with
members
of
our
local
faith
groups,
Barry
Watson
from
features
United,
Church
and
they're,
telling
me
that
the
out
of
the
cold
program
is
completely
over
capacity.
We
heard
that
here
again
this
morning
today.
K
So
for
me
the
takeaway
is
is
very
clear.
We
need
to
do
more,
and
you
know
housing
is
a
planning
issue,
but
it's
also
a
social
services
issue.
It's
an
economic
development
issue,
it's
about
health
and
it's
about
community
and
and
there's
a
lot
of
complexity
in
there
and
I.
Think
today's
conversation
is
the
right
place
to
start
this
letter.
Is
the
right
place
to
start
on
all
that?
For
me,
when
I
think
of
the
City
Council's
approach
over
the
past
year
and
I
wasn't
here,
but
I
followed
it
closely
and
prior
to
the
council.
K
Cuts
Council
have
voted
on
creating
a
standing
committee
on
housing,
and
this
was
meant
to
be
a
place
where
we
could
bring
all
those
pieces
of
the
puzzle
together
and
this
committee
is
now
gone
as
a
part
of
the
cuts.
So
when
we're
talking
about
working
with
partners,
provincial
level
of
government
federal
level
of
government,
that's
something
that
we
definitely
need
to
keep
in
mind.
So
the
steps
today
they
need
to
start
with
the
city
and
of
course
we
should
be
advocating
as
hard
as
we
can
for
other
resources.
K
Of
course,
we
should,
and
perhaps
actually
our
housing
now
properties
could
be
used
as
a
model
for
federally
owned
sites.
We
heard
from
MP
Vaughn
that
the
federal
government
wants
to
work
with
us
on
those
sites.
We
also
heard
from
councillor
perks
about
building
mixed-income
properties.
So
you
know
going
forward
I'm,
looking
forward
to
seeing
the
details
on
those
federally
owned
sites
and
what
opportunities
exist.
It
might
actually
be
an
opportunity
for
them
to
replicate
some
of
the
work
that
we're
doing
on
those
pieces
right
now.
C
Thanks
chair
and
thanks
to
everybody
who
came
down
today
and
for
counselors
to
putting
their
their
letter
on
here,
so
we're
not
just
having
the
discussion
about
the
Vice
Chair,
but
we're
actually
talking
about
housing.
I
think
it
would
be
helpful
as
well.
I
know
the
clerk
isn't
here
for
it
scoping
out
for
each
committee
what
they're
dealing
with
around
the
housing
file,
which
would
be
helpful
for
us
to
get
that
idea
so
understand.
You
have
a
motion
I'll
support
that
a
chair.
C
These
properties
I
just
want
to
get
back
to
the
properties,
because
the
only
reason
that
we're
able
to
say
we're
going
to
take
11
sites
and
try
to
make
as
many
houses
as
deeply
affordable
as
possible
is
because
we
have
these
properties
that
have
been
identified
first
through
Bill,
Toronto
and
now
through
create
tío
and
through
this
election
that
we
went
through.
That,
quite
frankly,
was
about
affordable
housing,
so
I'm
very
proud
of
11
sites.
C
But
when
I'm
talking
about
the
properties
last
year,
when
we
had
this
very
debate
about
and
I,
remember,
AJ
weathers
came
and
brought
me
a
chart
that
had
all
the
people,
the
number
of
beds
that
we
need
to
add
and
we
worked
hard
to
add
those
beds
this
year,
but
that
we
also
asked
what
are
the
properties
that
the
federal
government
and
the
provincial
government
owns
in
the
City
of
Toronto.
Just
as
we
know
it,
ours
are
and
what
may
be
suitable
for
housing.
C
I'm
bitterly
disappointed
that
we
don't
have
that
and
I'm
asking
our
deputy
city
manager.
If
we
can
get
that,
but
also
I
recall
one
and
I'm,
not
sure
which
level
of
government
told
us.
They
won't
give
us
that.
So,
if
that's
the
case,
we're
gonna
have
to
ask
again
because
this
is
an
important
way
to
to
ask
for
housing,
be
able
to
build
housing
and
we
all
know
of
sites
that
were
sold
for
not
a
lot
sites
that
were
sold
without
any
housing
and
we're
really
putting
our
foot
down
up
the
city.
C
To
say,
housing
has
to
be
part
of
our
thing,
hang
on
every
single
site
that
we
have,
and
that
is
a
big
step
forward.
I
would
really
hope
that
the
federal
government
would
do
their
co-op
housing
funding
and
get
co-op
housing
back
into
the
mix
across
this
country.
There's
no
more
successful
type
of
affordable
housing,
then
co-op
self
managed,
affordable,
housing,
Wow
and
as
well
to
look
for
our
tenants
first
plan
that
would
spin
off
some
of
the
smaller
TC
agency
properties
into
coops.
So
we're
going
to
hear
more
about
that
later.
C
The
real
deal
here
is
the
run
evictions
which
have
been
discussed
this
morning.
Air
B&B,
which
is
driving
out
affordability,
I,
have
one
rooming
house
in
my
ward,
with
over
25
people
living
in
a
registered
legal
rooming
house
that
there's
a
very
real
fear
that
the
owner
is
evicting
people
not
just
to
fix
it
up,
but
to
create
short-term
housing
where
there's
been
stable
housing
for
low-income
people.
C
So
all
levels
of
government
for
our
policy
around
land
we
own-
we
haven't-
put
the
housing
lens
on
until
this
very
moment
in
the
City
of
Toronto,
in
a
really
aggressive
way
and
I
think
we
have
to
be
aggressive
as
well
around
around
ensuring
that
all
those
lands,
including
TCH
lands,
can
have
new,
affordable
or
new
social
housing
when
they're
rebuilt
and
lastly,
I'll
just
say
for
number.
Four
I
was
very
heartened
to
hear
that
MP
Vaughan
said
we'll
meet
you
anywhere
anytime,
whatever
you
need
and
I
think
number
four
actually
and
I'd.
C
Ask
you
to
do
that
chair,
send
that
to
the
mayor
to
start
that
immediately
with
MP
Vaughn
and
others
for
the
supportive
housing
for
co-op
housing,
for
federal
lands
being
in
for
real
discussions
about
real
things
and
to
say
to
the
levels
of
government:
here's
our
projects,
here's
the
housing!
We
need
X
dollars
in
order
to
do
that
and
have
a
clearer
ask
than
for
large
amounts
for
exact
projects
that
we
want
funded.
A
A
This
is
an
issue
that
you
know
some
people,
you
know
call
for
the
city
to
declare
a
crisis
and
emergency.
Many
of
us
have
called
it
a
crisis
an
emergency.
Many
many
years
ago,
we've
had
campaigns
here
in
the
city
with
you
know
the
close,
the
housing
gap
with
billboards
where
we
asked
MPs
and
NPP's
with
residents
to
write
their
MPs,
their
mpps
we've
taken
buses
of
people
to
Ottawa
to
call
for
a
National
Housing
Strategy.
We
had
big
city
mayors
meetings
to
call
on
billions
of
dollars
from
our
order,
their
orders
of
government.
A
We
have
been
calling
on
the
other
origins
of
government
with
you
and
we
need
to
continue
doing
that,
and
today
is
another
step
in
the
right
direction
to
say
you
know
we.
This
is
we're
still
not
there.
We
do
have
a
National
Housing
Strategy,
but
these
are
still
the
issues
that
we
have
in
front
of
us.
We
had
an
80%
increase
on
our
shelter
and
respite
centers.
We
had
five
years
ago,
3800
beds
of
shelter
beds.
We
have
over
7,000
of
shelter
beds
as
we
speak
today.
This
is
not
the
way
to
go.
A
We
need
to
invest
in
our
supportive
housing.
We
need
to
invest
in
our
housing
in
our
housing,
but
we
need
also
to
take
in
consideration
that
housing
takes
time
to
build
supportive
housing
takes
time
to
build.
So
we
do
need
the
conversation
around
the
issues
of.
Can
we
have
an
approach
right
now?
Can
we
use
our
housing
benefits?
Can
we
use,
but
can
we
work
with
our
nonprofit
housing
providers,
the
health
sector?
And
how
can
we
have
the
support
services
to
the
people
that
needed
it
most?
A
How
can
we
prevent
the
evictions
that
are
happening
more
and
more
often
so?
I
think
these
are
all
discussions
that
need
to
happen.
That
need
to
continue
to
happen.
Honestly
I
mean
we.
We
are
in
right
now
we
have
fortune
we're
fortunate
enough
to
have
a
couple
of
hundred
units
of
supportive
housing
under
construction.
That
was
also
done
with
with
our
money
that
came
from
a
homestead
homes
for
good,
with
the
the
previous
our
government
have
had
invested.
We
need
to
continue
that
kind
of
investment.
A
We
need
to
ask
our
provincial
partners
to
continue
that
that
kind
of
investment
we
have
tomorrow
at
executive.
We
will
be
talking
about
thousands
of
units.
That
is
an
investment
that
the
city
for
decades
had
not
put
in
we're
investing
every
year
three
hundred
million
dollars
now
to
repair
TC
HC.
We
finally
have
a
line
item
in
our
capital
budget,
that
is
part
of
fixing
TC
HC.
We
are
putting
up
our
land
and
we've
challenged
other
orders
of
government
to
do
the
same.
A
We
want
to
build
housing
and
we
want
to
continue
to
build
housing,
but
we're
just
catching
up
we're
just
catching
up
with
an
80%
increase
in
the
last
two
years
and
in
the
use
of
our
shelters.
It
is
true
we
can't
do
it
alone.
We
need
the
other
orders
of
government
to
come
to
the
table.
We've
been
saying
it
for
years
together
as
advocates
and
many
of
us,
and
we
need
to
continue
saying
that
the
the
the
recognition
has
been
given
right.
A
We,
we
people,
have
recognized
just
up
the
street
that
there
is
a
housing
situation
happening
in
this
in
this
in
this
city
and
peepees
increase
their
housing
allowances
by
20
percent.
As
Miguel
said
it's
so
true,
they
recognize
there's
a
housing
issue.
We
should
have
our
housing
allowances
increased
by
20
percent,
I'm
sure
our
streets
to
home
people
out
there
with
20
percent
more
housing
allowances
could
help
a
lot
of
people
get
home
right
there.
So,
let's
have
that
conversation?
Absolutely
let's.
A
Let's
continue
the
conversation
and
and
call
for
real
solutions,
pragmatic
solutions,
bringing
solutions
to
the
table
so
I
want
to
thank
everybody
and
I.
I
can
get
the
the
support
of
the
committee
to
have
this
going
to
council
I'm
just
asking
that
the
city
management
city
solicitor
comment
on
the
recommendations,
1
2,
&
3,
because
I
know
there
will
be
questions
and
so
I
think
it's
better
that
they
prepare
a
report
right
away.
A
As
per
recommendation
of
our
vice-chair
recommendation
for
to
be
referred
to
the
mayor
to
have
immediately
action
on
this
and
recommendation
5,
the
only
thing
I
asked
your
permission
to
change
is
that,
instead
of
automatically
saying
that
it
needs
to
be
red
cross
that
we
leave
it
open
for
our
staff
to
choose
red
cross
or
or
other
providers,
I
think
it's
just
wise
to
leave
it
up
to
them,
because
we
might
even
need
more
than
one.
It
might
not
be
just
one
provider
and
the
other
thing
is,
as
we
know
there
has
been.
A
We
have
housing
issues
coming
to
this
committee
and
housing
issues
going
to
Community,
Economic,
Development
economic
development
and
community
committee.
So
we
deal
more
with
the
bricks
and
mortars
of
the
housing
they
deal
with
the
operational,
so
the
operations
of
shelters,
the
capacity
issues.
All
these
issues
are
dealt
in
the
in
the
economic
and
community
development.
J
A
B
Thank
you
very
much
councilor
to
clarify
the
intention
of
your
motion.
You're,
recommending
that
portions
one
two
and
three
of
our
our
letter
he
sent
to
the
city
manager
in
a
city
solicitor.
What
do
you
hope
that
they
provide
to
us
at
as
advice
and
I'll?
Just
give
you
an
example
recommendation
one
in
the
letter
simply
has
city
council
of
firming
our
commitment
to
comply
with
international
human
rights
law
as
it
pertains
to
homelessness
as
a
human
rights.
B
B
B
A
Aren't
I
not
at
all,
not
at
all,
is
just
to
give
that
contact
from
the
city,
solicitor.
She'll,
probably
say
exactly
what
you're
saying
what
you're
saying
but
I
think
it
is
important
actually
to
have
everyone
in
our
colleagues
understanding
all
that,
because
I
think
you'll
make
it
easier
to
actually
get
the
support
at
Council
and
I
would
like
to
have
a
strong
support
for
it
and.
B
What
are
you
trying
to
do
there?
I'm
just
I,
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
we
are.
We
are
going
to
achieve
an
outcome
that
will
just
will
allow
us
to
speak
with
absolute
clarity
on
the
floor
of
counsel
as
opposed
to
watering
down
or
perhaps
diluting
the
the
crisis
until
it's,
it
becomes
no
longer
crisis
by
it
by
by
the
manufacturing
and
wordsmithing
of
it
all
I.
A
I,
don't
I,
don't
think
any.
It's
no
intention
of
everybody
diluting
the
crisis.
The
crisis
is
the
crisis,
and
the
crisis
is
what
we
see
day
in
and
day
out
in
the
system.
It's
not
the
wording
of
this
motion
that
is
gonna
make
the
crisis
bigger
or
smaller.
The
crisis
is
that
the
crisis
is
the
numbers
of
people
that
were
having
using
our
system,
to
be
honest
with
you,
I
just
want
them
to
give
a
little
bit
of
background,
so
people
understand
what
we're
doing
we've
had
this
done
in
the
past
last
time
we
had.
A
B
And
because
the
last
time
staff
stipulated
that
it
wasn't
technically
within
the
the
intention
of
an
emergency
in
a
crisis,
city
council,
sat
on
its
hands
and
did
nothing
and
that
that
was
the
result
of
giving
it
into
putting
into
the
hands
of
the
bureaucrats
as
opposed
to
taking
a
strong
political
position.
Stating
these
are
the
values
and
the
line
in
the
sand
that
we
wanted
to
draw.
But.
A
But
we
and
I
do
understand
that,
but
I
think
that
it
is
important
to
have
their
professional
opinion
and
we
are
the
politicians
and
we
need
to
take
the
action
given
that
advice.
So
we
will
take
the
action,
as
you
may
see,
some
of
us
might
take
it.
Some
of
us
might
not
take
it,
but
I
don't
think
we
can
hide
staffs
advice
or
saying
it's
not
gonna
come
forward,
because
it's
not
convenience
from
for
the
point
of
view
that
I'm
trying
to
make
it
is
what
it
is.
A
They're
professionals
they're
gonna,
give
us
their
professional
advice.
We
are
politicians,
we
take
that
professional
advice.
We
take
the
advice
of
the
advocates,
we
take
everybody's
advice
and
we
make
our
decision.
It
is
our
decision
to
make,
but
hiding
professional
advice
of
our
of
our
staff.
I.
Don't
think
it's
the
way
to
go.
I
think
we
just
put
it
out
there
in
the
clear
it's
it's
their.
B
Advice,
you
know
I'm
not
suggesting
that
we're
hiding
anything
I'm,
simply
suggesting
that
we're
going
to
find
a
way
to
to
dilute,
to
take
away
the
urgency
to
find
a
technical
excuse
on
why
we
should
not
take
urgent
action,
and
if-
and
if
that
is
the
intention
of
the
motion-
or
the
intention
of
that
may
be
an
outcome
of
the
staff
report-
that
it
doesn't
fit
into
a
neat
little
technical
box.
Therefore
we
shouldn't
do
it,
then
this
entire
conversation
and
all
the
the
deputies
that
have
spoken
they're
their
words
were
not
heard
today.
B
A
That's
all
I'm
trying
to
say
I
think
that
we
are
all
elected
officials
and
that
we
have
a
responsibility
to
take
that
professional
advice,
with
the
advice
from
advocates
and
with
the
advice
remember
and
make
our
own
choices
and
decisions,
I
think
the
urgency,
the
crisis,
I've
used,
housing
crisis
for
years
and
years
didn't
have
to
have
it
declared
by
Council.
It's
just
the
way
that
I've
referred
to
this
whole
situation.
A
B
A
A
In
for
me,
because
people
will
say
they
don't
have
the
information,
people
will
say
they
don't
have
the
background
to
make
the
decision
and
I'm
just
trying
to
give
them
as
much
background
that
it's
just
not
councillors
opinion
and
then
every
single
person
will
have
to
make
up
their
mind,
given
all
these
all
these
things
together.
So
it's.