To protect the residents and to prevent further damage to the property, the upper tier municipality worked with a lower tier municipality and participating community partners to find an interim housing solution. [...] The protocol outlines the roles and responsibilities of various municipal players, centering the provision of services around the principles of housing first and the safety of encampment and broader community residents. [...] In many of these circumstances, removal of encampments was deemed necessary to preserve the safety of both the residents of the encampments and the broader community. [...] The abdication of leadership by the provincial government and resulting adjudication by the courts is costly and slow, creating unclear and unrealistic expectations, and feeding divisions at the community level. [...] • Engaging and developing solutions with people with lived experience of homelessness to ensure the proposed approach is appropriate and responsive to the needs and experiences of people experiencing homelessness.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction 2
- Ontario Municipalities Are Committed to Meeting Rights Obligations 3
- Charter Ontario Human Rights Code 3
- Case Study 1 4
- Case Study 2 4
- Case Study 3 4
- Municipalities Need Flexibility to Respond to Complexity 5
- Fire Protection and Prevention Act 5
- Case Study 1 6
- Case Study 2 6
- Case Study 3 6
- Federal and Provincial Government Leadership Is Needed Now 8
- Growing Income Insecurity 8
- Social Assistance 8
- Insufficient supply of deeply affordable housing 9
- The National Housing Strategy 9
- Inadequate Approach to Mental Health and Addictions 10
- Supportive Housing 10
- Expand the emergency shelter system 11
- Establish Homeless Encampment Guidance 11
- Cost-match federal encampment funding 11
- How Can Municipalities Navigate in the Interim 12
- Alternative shelter options for individual encampment residents are critical 12
- Charter 12
- Location of alternative shelter options 13
- Public use of occupied space 13
- Protected groups and homeless encampments 13
- The Ontario Human Rights Code 13
- Charter Ontario Human Rights Code 13
- Conclusion 14
