City workers dismantled a homeless encampment in the Rosedale Valley on Tuesday morning despite calls from some anti-poverty advocates to abandon the plan.
The city notified those living underneath the Sherbourne Street bridge of their intention to dismantle the encampment last month, providing them with 15-days’ notice to remove their belongings.
“The city cleared out homeless encampments under the Gardiner last year. What happened? Well they are back there. People were in fact back there a few weeks after the encampments were cleared and people are likely going to be back here as well,” Yogi Acharya, of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, told reporters on Tuesday. “That is the reality that the city is facing when you have the demand for shelter far exceeding supply. People have no options and you have to go back on the streets.
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