The City of Toronto is asking a court to order a local man to stop building small wooden shelters for the homeless.
The city filed an injunction application on Feb. 12 against Khaleel Seivwright, a carpenter who has been building small structures for those living outside.
The city wants an order that permanently stops Seivwright from placing or relocating structures on city-owned land.
— CBC
According to CBC, Seivwright's shelters are in numerous parks across the city. The carpenter has been building the tiny structures since last fall and has raised over $200,000 on GoFundMe for materials.
In a February 11th post on his GoFundMe page, Seivwright wrote: "I'm makin this post to let you all know that we have stopped building Tiny Shelters but will continue to do maintenance and relocating of shelters as people staying outside get into housing."
The hearing date for the city's injunction has not yet been set.
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This is what being a hero looks like. Cool guy
vigilante carpenter...now there's a job title you don't see everyday!
Just another reason why I don't like toronto.
Here's an idea for Toronto.... BUILD a 100% subsidized housing complex for homeless people without a job. Address your homeless population problem. Maybe some need to go to treatment facilities for treating the multitude of varying issues that they may have.
At least the person doing this work is doing something more than any of these bureaucratic politicians have been doing to address homeless problems for the past 150 YEARS combined just by one of these shelters. At least putting a roof (the most basic shelter) in a glorified human-scale "dog" house. At least that is more than what the city had done in 150 years because the past 150 years is all talks, studies, but no action... no following through on a solution. All the money spent on b.s. over the past 50 years, they could have done a lot more.
If you aren't going to do something about it in a humane way, maybe they should euthanize these homeless people. It's more humane than letting them suffer in Toronto winter.
"If you aren't going to do something about it in a humane way, maybe they should euthanize these homeless people."
But in a humane way, no?
It works for dogs and cats, right? If the animals have a terminal or unfixable illness or injury that living would be torture an inhuman, vetenarians will usually euthanize the animal instead of the animal suffering so why make humans suffer hyperthermia and so forth. If they are complaining about what this guy is doing, they should spend their time making a better solution for the homeless people and FOLLOW through. The problem is not just Toronto but a lot of 'big' cities with homeless problems. They do nothing about fixing the problem. They'll spend $750,000 on studies and fancy presentations and year and a half of all that but don't spend one penny (not even a Canadian penny) towards an actual solution. Why allow those homeless people to suffer? Perhaps, we can build something better that has insulation suitable for winter. I see its flaws but even as flawed, it's actually one small step at doing something that the city government hasn't done anything at all about addressing the problem.
Sure. Decrease the surplus population, and all that.
Euthanization isn't my preferred direction but hell... if they aren't going to do anything else.... it is better than merely letting them dying a more miserable death. I personally suggest a better solution which I stated earlier in my first post to this topic in its first paragraph. Apparently, people missed that, didn't they.
Walking and chewing gum are possible simultaneously. In a similar way, solving the fundamental structural issues is possible while simultaneously helping those with immediate needs. The perfect being the enemy of the good and all those happy, trite sayings. But this would require the collective political will to change the systems, and when the systems exist to consolidate financial power as if representational currencies are finite and somehow a zero-sum game, that is not very fucking likely.
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