Despite residents receiving assurances they could stay at the hotel until Aug. 15, some were abruptly told they had to relocate this month, according to a volunteer-run group working closely with hotel residents.
Despite residents pushing for and receiving assurances they could stay at the hotel until Aug. 15, some were abruptly told they had to relocate this month, according to the Encampment Support Network, a volunteer-run group working closely with hotel residents.
“Unfortunately, there are times that these move outs have to happen quickly or we lose the housing/shelter option for our residents,” she said, adding that despite Dixon Hall staff's efforts to match residents to housing, many will move to another shelter hotel dozens of kilometres away. The city's roughly 9,000 shelter spaces are routinely full and the latest data shows upwards of 200 people are turned away on an average night. Asylum seekers, who make up about a third of Toronto's shelter population, are being turned away from at-capacity shelters and steered towards federal programs as the city and federal government feud over funding.
As of February, the city was operating 23 temporary shelter sites and had extended leases at a majority of those until April 2024, earmarking five for closure this year. It has since closed three of those, with Strathcona Hotel and another hotel next up to close in August. Chow, at her first news conference as mayor on Wednesday, said she was unfamiliar with the Strathcona Hotel specifically, but said several hotel contracts are time-limited and some of the operators wanted to return to regular operations.The city said it closed the Strathcona site to new admissions in June and has been working with residents on relocation, including plans for permanent housing.
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