The cruelty is the point
Jan. 7th, 2020 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyThe average cost of a one-bedroom apartment in Toronto is $2300 a month.
Homeless shelters are full. Even if you can get in, the conditions are unimaginably horrific (major trigger warnings for that link; I cried when I read it).
Last year, at least 2 homeless people a week died on Toronto's streets.
Against this backdrop, smug country club shitbag and walking sweater vest John Tory ordered a large encampment of homeless people (remember when tent cities were a signifier for dystopian fiction rather than just our daily reality?) in the Rosedale Valley—right next to one of the poshest areas of Toronto—evicted. He claimed that this barbaric, violent act was necessary for "safety" (whose, exactly?) and that the people had been given lots of notice. Fifteen days! I mean, that is not enough time for an employed, currently housed, middle class person to secure a new apartment in Toronto, but I guess all these homeless people didn't, like, consider not being homeless. Maybe next time they should have tried being born with an entire drawer of silver cutlery in their mouths like Mayor Tory was.
Of course, it won't do any good. Unless you actually house people, they're just going to set up another camp and/or move back to the old camp in a few days when the city workers have gone, minus whatever possessions they weren't able to carry with them when they fled the attack.
Homeless shelters are full. Even if you can get in, the conditions are unimaginably horrific (major trigger warnings for that link; I cried when I read it).
Last year, at least 2 homeless people a week died on Toronto's streets.
Against this backdrop, smug country club shitbag and walking sweater vest John Tory ordered a large encampment of homeless people (remember when tent cities were a signifier for dystopian fiction rather than just our daily reality?) in the Rosedale Valley—right next to one of the poshest areas of Toronto—evicted. He claimed that this barbaric, violent act was necessary for "safety" (whose, exactly?) and that the people had been given lots of notice. Fifteen days! I mean, that is not enough time for an employed, currently housed, middle class person to secure a new apartment in Toronto, but I guess all these homeless people didn't, like, consider not being homeless. Maybe next time they should have tried being born with an entire drawer of silver cutlery in their mouths like Mayor Tory was.
Of course, it won't do any good. Unless you actually house people, they're just going to set up another camp and/or move back to the old camp in a few days when the city workers have gone, minus whatever possessions they weren't able to carry with them when they fled the attack.
If you find this act as heinous as I do, you can snail mail:
Office of the Mayor
City Hall, 2nd Floor
100 Queen St. W.
Toronto, ON M5H 2N2
Email: mayor_tory@toronto.ca
Or phone: 416-397-CITY (2489)
to register your utter disgust. Here's some talking points if you need them.
You are more likely to become a homeless person than a millionaire.
