[AlbertC]

Application Details

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108 HARRISON ST​

Site Plan Approval for renovations to the existing building at 108 Harrison Street to serve as a municipal shelter.

 

[AlbertC]

108 Harrison St.

Location: 108 Harrison St. Demographic: Families Anticipated capacity: Up to 32 families Estimated opening date: 2028 Service Operator: Red Door Family Shelter The City of Toronto has secured 108 Harrison St. for use as a family shelter, providing a welcoming and caring place for families...

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108 Harrison St.​

Location: 108 Harrison St.
Demographic: Families
Anticipated capacity: Up to 32 families
Estimated opening date: 2028
Service Operator: Red Door Family Shelter
The City of Toronto has secured 108 Harrison St. for use as a family shelter, providing a welcoming and caring place for families experiencing homelessness to stay as they work toward permanent housing.
The shelter is part of the City’s Council-approved Homelessness Services Capital Infrastructure Strategy, which aims to open up to 20 new shelters citywide by 2033. These sites will help respond to demand and stabilize the shelter system.
Learn more about the Strategy and how shelters make a difference in people's lives.
The City is committed to working with the local community to support the success of the site and will be hiring a Community Engagement Facilitator to lead engagement. More information on this process can be found in the Working with the Community tab below.

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Community Drop-in Information Session​

Members of the community are invited to drop-in at any time to learn more about the shelter program, speak to staff and ask questions.

• Date: Thursday, February 26
• Time: Drop-in anytime between 6-8 p.m.
• Location: St. Helen Catholic School, 1196 College St.

 

[jmi22]

Literally spitting distance from two elementary schools, are the geniuses on city staff trying to inspire the greatest backlash possible?

 

[sunnyraytoronto]

Don't forget there's already a Modular Supportive Housing just 180m away at 150 Harrison,... err, re-addressed to 321 Dovercourt.

 

[mcbg1]

Literally spitting distance from two elementary schools, are the geniuses on city staff trying to inspire the greatest backlash possible?

They’ll wait until children get assaulted to do something

 

[Northern Light]

Literally spitting distance from two elementary schools, are the geniuses on city staff trying to inspire the greatest backlash possible?

This is a Family shelter. Not singles. That means these are single or two-parent families with children.

They’ll wait until children get assaulted to do something

This is a family shelter, parents with kids? You think they are a high risk to the community?

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From the notice above:

108 Harrison St.​

Location: 108 Harrison St.
Demographic: Families
Anticipated capacity: Up to 32 families
Estimated opening date: 2028
Service Operator: Red Door Family Shelter

 

[mcbg1]

This is a Family shelter. Not singles. That means these are single or two-parent families with children.



This is a family shelter, parents with kids? You think they are a high risk to the community?

****

From the notice above:

108 Harrison St.​

Location: 108 Harrison St.
Demographic: Families
Anticipated capacity: Up to 32 families
Estimated opening date: 2028
Service Operator: Red Door Family Shelter

Just wait

 

[jmi22]

This is a Family shelter. Not singles. That means these are single or two-parent families with children.



This is a family shelter, parents with kids? You think they are a high risk to the community?

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From the notice above:

108 Harrison St.​

Location: 108 Harrison St.
Demographic: Families
Anticipated capacity: Up to 32 families
Estimated opening date: 2028
Service Operator: Red Door Family Shelter

There is nothing preventing the future reutilization of the site based on city needs, I'm sure George Street once featured some very wholesome family shelters.

And yes, ultimately adults in such a state as to end up in a shelter are disproportionately likely to be dealing with mental issues, substance abuse, or a combination of the two. Their kids being with them does not negate this fact.

The city's whole theory of utilizing very expensive, inner city residential land to warehouse the statistically most volatile people in the city makes no sense, from a service provision, safety or political viability perspective.

These shelters should be placed on high-visibility arterials within predominately industrial and commercial lands in easy access of the core. Kipling between the Queensway and Muster Ave, and Warden between Eglinton and Hymus Rd are prime examples of these areas. Before the accusations of NIMBYism fly, I happen to reside very closely to one of these two places. Public dollars spent not only get more bang for their buck, but we also prevent the obscene subsidization of the least contributing members of the City living in highly desirable areas, while hundreds of thousands of tax-contributing residents are constantly priced out to the burbs of Toronto, or 905.

The last century of inner-urban service clustering has failed across the continent, and only served to destroy neighbourhoods while creating a hyper-concentrated class of non-profits and "advocates" who constantly push for more funding regardless of outcomes.