Two weeks after the City of Toronto said it would begin referring refugee claimants seeking beds in its at-capacity shelter system to federal programs, asylum seekers who recently arrived in Canada are struggling to find places to sleep.
In the meantime, dozens of asylum seekers are stuck in limbo, unable to access the city's shelter system and lacking support from the federal government.On May 31, Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie said the city's approximately 9,000-bed shelter system was at capacity nightly, and it could no longer cope with the high number of refugee claimants hoping to access a bed.
"We do admit people when there's space, but currently there's just no space," Tanner said in an interview. Meserat Demeke, president of the Ethiopian Association of the Greater Toronto Area, said volunteers with her organization found more than 20 Ethiopian newcomers sleeping on the sidewalk Monday outside of a downtown homeless support centre.
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