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Ryan Donais started building the small modular homes this summer as he watched the city's housing crisis becoming more dire. He said he didn't want to go through another winter seeing people living on the streets, so he put his background in construction to use.

"I just don't see any changes. It's been many years with people outside and it's not changing. I couldn't imagine being outside for years, you know?"

Since then, Donais has built three homes at a cost of about $10,000 each, most of which has been paid for through donations to his GoFundMe page.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, whatever I'm saying here is never going to apply identically everywhere.

At the end of the day, we're talking about homeless people in Toronto, so it's not particularly helpful or applicable.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Right, agreed. My initial point was some cities create a street address to represent the homeless encampment (or homeless people), and the homeless number their tents. This was so that support systems or jobs that need something on a form for processing get satisfied, and homeless get mail if needed. I sure hope somebody comes up with a better method of the housing issues. Here in BC the cities have bought up old hotels and converted them to low barrier housing, but it doesn't address all their needs like mental health care, drug rehabilitation, etc