Toronto’s packed shelters to refer asylum seekers to federal programs: deputy mayor

Jennifer McKelvie says the city hasn’t received enough funding to cope with unprecedented demand for shelter space from asylum seekers and refugee claimants

Toronto’s deputy mayor says the city’s overstretched shelter system cannot cope with the high numbers of refugee claimants seeking bed spaces and will begin referring them away from at-capacity shelters towards federal programs.

The city says the number of asylum seekers in Toronto’s shelter system grew by 500 per cent in the past 20 months, from a low of 530 per night in September 2021 to more than 2,800 throughout the month of May.

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