Mayor Tory: How many more homeless people must die before you act?

December 23, 2019

Madeleine Ritts, a mental health social worker writes in today's Toronto Star: "On Tuesday, Toronto city council called homelessness a 'critical and emergency issue'; one week after the homeless memorial recorded its 995th name. When this piece is published more names will have been added." 

Yet not one single action will be taken by city council to respond to the immediate homeless emergency. (see the demands in the original petition)

Ritts adds: "Finding funds and resources to address this emergency is both a question of political will and moral clarity. Council’s political inaction raises concerning moral questions about what, or who, we value and why."