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rfmcdonaldCBC News' Lauren Pelley reports on one proposed solution to the emergency situation of homelessness in winter that, frankly, Toronto should have embraced earlier.
Freezing temperatures and over-capacity shelters have led to a push from housing advocates to open Toronto's two armouries for emergency use by the city's homeless community.
So far, more than 1,300 people have signed a petition launched by street nurse and activist Cathy Crowe, calling on Mayor John Tory to request use of the two armouries at Fort York and Moss Park from the Minister of National Defence,
"I am shocked by the level of crowding in both the shelter system, the Out of the Cold program...The warming centres are no longer enough to meet the need," Crowe wrote in a letter to Tory.
Speaking to CBC Toronto on Sunday, she also said dozens of beds have been lost at Seaton House, Toronto's largest homeless shelter, due to a serious Strep A outbreak.
"We do not have the shelter spaces or capacity to support the people who need them right now," echoed Joe Cressy, city councilor for Ward 20.
