Homeless Canadians Face Increasing Danger Because Of COVID-19 Lockdowns

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“From a mental health standpoint, people are drained. They were already living in a crisis state. The triggers they’re experiencing in shelters are heightened.'

by the Ford government, Ly said he wouldn’t have a safe place to stay throughout this public health crisis.Ly turned to stairwells and bathrooms when he needed a safe place after he was kicked out of his family's home.

In spite of the hardships, substance-use struggles, and family trauma he’s healing from, Ly considers himself lucky. In a treatment centre, he can practice social distancing as he progresses in his recovery. Locals he knows who also have no fixed addresses are having an even harder time navigating their already precarious worlds during this pandemic.

His friends have no restaurants nor public libraries to keep warm in. The closure of public spaces and confusion about where they can be has left many homeless and street-involved Canadians in vulnerable positions, with the frontline workers that advocate for them stretched perilously thin.Jenna Davies, 33, is a Toronto-based social worker said the city’s vulnerable use public spaces in different ways in order to take care of themselves.

“I have to hammer home that the places they go to, the McDonald’s and the libraries, the places they sleep for a bit aren’t open,” she told HuffPost Canada, adding that the closure of shopping malls has been a huge hit.is closed,” one client told her. “What happens if you don’t have a home?”means many rely on restaurant restrooms to stay on top of their hygiene.

I got a lesson from this nice man on how the use the hand made-at-home washing stations which are set up around Pandora tent city.

 

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