Refugees stranded on Toronto streets, shelter workers say.
The backlog that has created is one reason there’s no room to house dozens of new refugees who are waiting and sleeping on the street outside an intake office on Peter Street in downtown Toronto — on top of a funding fight between all levels of government on who should pay to house desperate people fleeing their home countries.“This is no longer a housing crisis or a homeless crisis, this is a humanitarian crisis,” said Siu Mee Cheng, the executive director of Street Haven.
One refugee in the shelter, Theresia Makumi, said she left Kenya because her life was in danger. Makumi is a trained engineer in her home country, eligible for funding, and says she would like to start working as soon as she can. But much of that money is going to existing recipients on the program, and money for new participants is actually falling, from about $45 million last year to $35 million this year.
“It requires all levels of government to acknowledge that we need to do so much more than we are already doing to make housing affordable,” Bell said. “We are calling for big investments into affordable housing, as well as strong rent controls so we can stabilize the price of rent and crack down on speculations to make housing more affordable for everyone from newcomers to first-time homebuyers to renters. It’s essential.
The province alleged the federal government is underfunding Ontario by approximately $480 million for housing and homelessness over the term of the National Housing Strategy, when compared with Ontario’s share of households in Core Housing Need, which is the highest in the country.
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