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surroundings should take into account the medical and social needs of older people. Pauline chan, ct news. >> Michelle: returning to city hall, speaking of homelessness and the city is discussing how it will address encampments and support for those experiencing homelessness. Let solicited for a moment. >> A significant public pressure to remove encampments from parks, safety is a condition for removal and people need to know why and how it will happen. The city has updated a protocol in making good on our commitment to progressively realizing the right to housing as a human right and it's a key response to the ombudsman report. Getting the work right evolves deep and ongoing engagement with those living in or having lived in encampments as well as the people who serve them and know their needs very well. Part of the approaches providing transparent and a coordinated process to provide staff their work and that means exhausting tools to connect people to indoor spaces and providing enhanced and flexible service models to respond to people's needs and safety and shelter in the system. We have a mission to direct city staff to develop and implement key actions to increase access to safety and secure housing and safety for people who are living outdoors and respond to people. I particularly want to highlight our recommendation for a pilot program of enhanced multisectoral case management and support for people living outdoors. Those people have complex mental and physical health leads and that the work be done in partnership with the community serving agencies and experts. Second we are making a request for the government of ontario to immediately allocate $54 million to the city of toronto for the administration of the canada ontario held lean -- housing benefit program to support transitions for people living outdoors and in the shelter system for permanent housing. This is a problem for governments across the country to face. A crisis of people not having a home and for toronto this is another step that builds on the shelter safety study and assessment of needs this fall followed by a shelter safety plan and the first shelter capitol plan for the city of toronto. It is an urgency that is joined by the commitment of this mayor and this council to build more affordable housing. With that I will pass it on. >> Thank you very much councillor bravo and good afternoon and thank you for joining us to hear about the city of toronto enhancing and evolving its approach to encampments and supports for those experiencing homelessness. Let me start by recognizing the hard work and compassionate work by the outreach workers in health care and nurses and volunteers. Folks that go into public spaces and connect with people who are living absolutely homeless and support them to get connected to the essential supports and help they need. It is we at the city of toronto working to connect those to housing they deserve and the work of these folks is critical and we thank them for that. Encampments are a symptom of the housing affordability crisis and shelter demand that exceeds affordability and other challenges such as mental health and the drug toxicity crisis. Toronto continues to see unprecedented pressure on the emergency pressure system -- emergency health care system to inflated cost-of-living, insufficient low income housing and an increase in the number of refugee claimants arriving in the city. We are working to address each of these issues but in the meantime we know people continue to be at risk. In april of this past month we had an average every day of 225 people that called us at the central intake service that were unable to get matched by the end of the day. As of may fifth there were 256 encampments at 131 city-owned properties in toronto. This work is about people. That is why we have evolved our strategic approach to encampments and everyone deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. And this report and the accompanying protocols are just one piece of the measures we are taken to offer certainty, health and dignity to people experiencing homelessness and surrounding communities. As the weather warms we often see an increase in the number of encampments in the city and that is true again this season. The report provides a timely and

much needed update on the work we are doing to help. The nature of these challenges are changing and we need to be changing with them. We are presenting a housing first human rights based approach to support people to access indoor spaces while also addressing the needs of the broader community. There are several key pillars to this approach. The first is expanding the enhanced focused housing outreach and support model to other encampments. It is exploring new service models for people that are living outdoors. It is about enhancing safety in our shelter system both for our staff and our clients and finally it must be about increasing housing opportunities and shelter system flow. We know great success comes from meeting people where they are at. The city has added an enhanced outreach model to its encampment toolkit that allows us to provide increased security, amenities, health services and street outreach. We know this approach works. Dufferin grove park and allen gardens debert -- demonstrate we can reduce encampments and help people transition to shelter and permanent housing. In allen gardens as of may 17th 97 people have moved from the park into housing from supports and 320 people have been referred into the shelter system. >> Michelle: you are listening to a live news conference. There has been outcry towards the city for officials to address homelessness and encampments and overcrowding and safety in shelters. They are outlining the plan to address the unhoused and we have a team there and we will continue to monitor the conference to find more on ctv news at five, 6:00 and at toronto at ctv news.ca. >>> Still to come shares of the international based air creator bombard ea were one of the top shares. More when we So you ready to go? Go until you can't go anymore. Lets go. Let's play hockey. Set the tone! We'll give 'em the lumber. You hurt? No excuses. They look ready to me. Bulldog hockey, baby. (Cheering) Light 'em up, light 'em up Light 'em up, light 'em up, light 'em up woman: Name two continents. Man: Mustard and relish. Oh my God. If you are ready to replace your windows or patio doors, would you want multiple companies working in your home, or would you prefer one single company doing everything? I'm Ann Rohmer here with Michael Smith from Renewable by Andersen. Michael, you do things so differently. Yes, we do, and we take care of your entire project for you from the point of sales, through manufacturing, all the way through the installation and the warranty. We cut out the middleman. And our customers absolutely love that. So, Michael, your warranty is very different from what other window companies offer. Yes, we offer a triple warranty that covers our windows, patio doors, and the installation. A lot of companies here in the Toronto area warranty their windows. But what happens if that company goes out of business? Well, exactly. Renewal by Andersen is a full service replacement window division of Andersen, which is a family of U.S. and Canadian companies. They've been around for over 115 years. So we'll be here to stand behind our warranty. You replace a lot of vinyl windows here in the Toronto area. People choose vinyl because they're sometimes less expensive, but vinyl is really 1950s technology, so they tend to warp and crack, meaning that you'd have to do your windows again. Okay, so if you don't use vinyl, what are your windows made of? Andersen research and develop our fabrics window material for over 30 years before we install it into one. Home fabrics is a composite material that's two times stronger than vinyl and really just much more beautiful. And right now, renewal by Andersen has a great deal for Toronto area homeowners. Before May 31st, save $299 on every window and saved $799 on every door. Get an extra $500 off your project, plus pay nothing for a year for a free appointment. Call renewal by Andersen named Home Stars Best of the best for 2024. One 800 307 9300. ( ) When my hearing changed, HearingLife understood. ( ) I don't just want to keep hearing my friends. ( ) I want to keep being me. Book a free hearing test with one of our hearing professionals and see how our personalized care can help you - keep being you. Love your ears at HearingLife.

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