To properly manage the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to rapidly house people.

"To properly manage the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to rapidly house people – or maintain their housing. Extraordinary measures such as the use of rent supplements, prefabricated housing and the use of emergency powers to expropriate empty units can help. Addiction medicines must be made available to people for the full length of their quarantine, or they will be at increased risk of a fatal overdose.

In simpler times, we were not doing enough as a society for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Now, amid COVID-19, it is an absolute necessity that we do better."

-Roxie Danielson, a street nurse and SHJN Steering Committee

Read her opinion piece in the Globe and Mail.