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  • Breaking the cycle - Former Tent City dwellers find housing and prove NDP wrong

    06/27/2004 8:03:02 AM PDT · by Clive · 9 replies · 262+ views
    Toronto Sun ^ | June 27, 2004 | Sue-Ann Levy at City Hall
    A JUST-released report on the fate of the former Tent City denizens challenges, if not shatters, most of the myths perpetuated by NDPers about the dire need for affordable housing in Toronto. The $69,073 (!) report indicates the plan to put some 112 squatters turfed from the Cherry St. Tent City into private apartments -- using rent supplements -- has worked very well. So well, in fact, this group of "hard-to-house" people is experiencing a "sense of stability" for the first time in years, says the report, which is on the agenda of Tuesday's community services committee. The study --...
  • Homeless hone plan for own tent city

    01/25/2004 12:34:13 PM PST · by Sweet_Sunflower29 · 1 replies · 183+ views
    DenverPost.com ^ | January 25, 2004
    About 30 homeless people held a meeting on Saturday, bouncing around ideas that mixed what they knew about city codes and what they passionately envisioned for a tent city. The city of Denver's Department of Human Services is reviewing a 39-page proposal for a permanent tent city that the group pitched Tuesday. The homeless group met Saturday morning to follow up on the department's recommendation that they carve out more details, such as infrastructure costs, before their proposal is considered with other options the city is studying. Homeless men and a few women from different shelters filed into the St....