These are the scenes that break my heart. Yesterday this knapsack, full of life's essentials, was left under this tree. Today, no one has claimed it, it has been gone through through and half of it dumped out. What happened to this person? Where are they? 💔 #toronto 
I worry so much about ppl making the transition from housing to homelessness. esp #pwd. it is one of the biggest shocks and most difficult things anyone will endure in life. there's no manual "so, now you're homeless!" there is little to no support.
you're making a difficult adjustment in every way but most importantly psychologically. community is most important at this time but when do you go? especially with the embarrassment and shame and sense of failure that can accompany. our egos can be cruellest at these moments.
maybe you are being renovicted. maybe you're leaving an abusive relationship. maybe you just got out of jail. maybe you came home one day and the doors were locked. maybe you're on #odsp and got behind. worked w people who have experienced all these situations this year.
Ppl who are going to transition into an unhoused existence need more support than almost anyone you can imagine. It is a new life without support and without guardrails. Family and friends may rise to the occasion, but may not. Once again, @fordnation policies
do not provide for this. you have a hearing. you are evicted. you get the number for central intake. the trauma around this random, awful process is unknown and none of this is currently captured as data or human experience. 💔
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