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21 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Terrible public policy. No one benefited today

People being pushed from one encampment to another (there were folks at Lamport today who were in tents at Trinity Bellwoods 2 weeks ago)

How does this solve homelessness? Or anything?

There is a better way…

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24 Jul
🧵The narrative that encampment clearings are part of a compassionate approach to housing obstinate people is a fairy tale

Housing workers who do not work for the City will telly there is nowhere for people to go: shelters & shelter-hotels are full (and dangerous) 1/
That is why many of the supporters of encampment residents are the same people who work to keep unhoused ppl safe & to find them housing. There are also doctors, healthcare workers, professors, lawyers…

They are not the random “protesters” that the mayor would like to blame 2/
They are ppl who understand how systemic racism & anti-Indigeneity work:

90% of urban Indigenous ppl live in poverty

38% of encampment residents identify as Indigenous

Pandemic evictions have forced mostly racialized ppl out of their housing

Shelters are bursting&dangerous 3/
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26 Nov 20
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The LTB is functioning as an eviction factory. I sat through a day of covid-related hearings yesterday. I was there to serve as a witness in support of the #EastYork50, who have brilliant legal & community backing

But for others, it was a nightmare...
The hearings are chaired by adjudicators who not all thoughtful or even necessarily fair, so tenants are at the mercy of the draw. Some are better (kinder, more willing to listen to tenants’ reasons for their inability to pay arrears) than others.

Some are downright cruel...
In one case yesterday, documented by @Peoples_Defence, a tenant was pressured into signing a repayment plan that he clearly didn’t understand. When a lawyer there for another matter offered to help him, the chair kicked the lawyer off the call instead of agreeing to the help...
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