Councillors approved another look at hosting sanctioned encampment sites across the city in the hopes of diverting some living rough from residential areas and local parks.
Hamilton, Ont., will take another look at the possibility of managing sanctioned encampment sites in the hopes of moving tents away from parks and residential spaces across the city.
The ask draws upon “documents and research” presented during council discussions last August seeking resolutions to mitigate the growing number of tents popping up across municipal parks. “I myself have called 911 because I was worried for the safety of a young woman who was involved in an ugly instant, right in back my home,” he explained.Poilievre calls supervised consumption sites ‘drug dens,’ vows to close some“This goes on constantly. I don’t understand when I hear ‘we want to help them they’re vulnerable and marginalized,’ yet we have not set up a group encampment where support and their safety are ensured.
“Unfortunately, we haven’t moved the needle helping to address the needs of either the unhoused and the community.” Hwang’s motion doesn’t call for any edict to remove or prohibit tents in city parks due to rights issues, only to add an option that might funnel some facing homelessness to a city-approved location.
“If the tents show up in those neighbourhood parks still, well …then for me the conversation will end right away,” Jackson said.
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