Few complaints about shelter availability

[Locutus]

A city report says Toronto is not short on homeless shelter spaces despite recent protests decrying the lack of beds.

Members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) camped out in Metro Hall last week to demand more spots for homeless people.

But Mayor Rob Ford said the city's hostel services are meeting Toronto's needs.

The shelter management system catalogued more than 300 complaints last year, but only11 of those were about access to beds. Only one of those complaints was about being turned away.

OCAP organizer John Clarke says the report doesn't accurately reflect the problem.


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Few complaints about shelter availability, report finds - Toronto - CBC News


So finally, John 'Look at Me' Clarke can officially choke and die.

 

[Highball]

Why has the US media turned a blind eye towards the plight of the 500,000 + Americans living in tents and FEMA trailers after the Sandy storm? Entire US cities are gone and will probably never be reconstructed in my lifetime. Censoring? Maybe! Gov. Christie had it right. Where is the help that is badly needed. Oh, the Pipeline is more important, eh?

 

[Sal]

Street Pastor Doug Johnson Hatlem said the report doesn't mean there are enough shelter beds. He said most homeless people are too busy trying to survive to fill out complaint forms.
"If someone can't get a bed they've got to worry about how to keep warm, how to keep dry, how to keep moving," he told CBC News. "They're not going online and find a form."

bingo...