“Humanitarian crisis” in Milton-Parc
The city ombudsman reports that there’s a “humanitarian crisis” in Milton-Parc where indigenous homeless folks have been tending to congregate.
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qatzelok 10:28 on 2022-05-04 Permalink
We’re a business-dominated society, and the fenced-off parking lot in that area (that forces groups of people onto the skinny sidewalks) shows how much businessmen care about homelessness. Zero.
Kate 10:31 on 2022-05-04 Permalink
Allowing access to an empty lot wouldn’t solve the problem. The ombudsman is right: there needs to be a serious, permanent place for people to live – inside. This area is where Raphaël André died of exposure and that should be warning enough.
I happened by there recently on foot. The weird thing is that the folks I saw seemed to be happy. Winter’s over, they were out in the sun, greeting their friends, making jokes, generally whooping it up. I’m not saying they’re content not to have a proper place to sleep, but talk about rising above your difficulties.
Someone needs to get onto the issue of creating a living space BUT one with common areas and arrangements for people to congregate and socialize. Our convention of putting one person in one small cell-like room and expecting them to thrive and be grateful isn’t good for anybody, but it certainly is not going to work with folks from a culture very different from our buttoned‑up, work‑oriented city life.
On the 80 bus that day, on my way down to that area, there was an indigenous couple. They were having a good time on that bus – laughing, teasing each other, loud, and absolutely unselfconscious about it. All the white people on the bus were looking very slightly pained and saying nothing. It was actually very funny.
DeWolf 11:07 on 2022-05-04 Permalink
Christopher Curtis wrote a great story last fall about the (largely Inuit) itinerant community around Milton/Park:
https://rover.substack.com/p/born-again-in-milton-parc