DtTO
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^ +1. Allan Gardens has way too many homeless people, which is a shame.
Oh God - I live near Allan Gardens, and this is about the worst possible news for the area.
Seaton House needs to be broken up and turned into small, manageable unobtrusive shelter homes across the city. As ist stands now, having five hundred homeless men next to the park has been a depressant on the area for some time.
It depresses the area with mental illness, with drug dealing, with gross poverty and with loiterers. I might sound arch-conservative here, but believe me I'm not. I do see, however, an area overburdened beyond any fair capacity to properly assimilate, treat or deal with the poverty it has come to be a default location for.
The city needs desperately needs more housing and shelters, but it does not need more bulky out-sized depots like Seaton House. I for one will be protesting this expansion - in the hopes the city will begin to deal with models for homelessness that are less heavy handed, better for those involved, and for the neighbourhoods surrounding them.
Shouldn't they be splitting up the housing rather than concentrating more housing in one area...?
That's good news!June 16 Open House presentation:
http://www1.toronto.ca/City Of Toronto/Shelter Support & Housing Administration/Article/George Street Revitalization/gsr-open-house-boards.pdf
The capacity of the shelter is going to shrink significantly since the city is going to decentralize homeless shelters.
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