Hamilton is studying ways to provide sanctioned outdoor housing in the Southern Ontario city to alleviate a worsening homeless crisis that has surpassed the capacity of its shelter system, potentially through legal encampments or by building small cabins or tiny homes.
The city created a protocol last year allowing encampments of limited size on public property, with a rule of five tents per encampment and a minimum distance from places such as highways, schools and daycares, as well as any private property. But Mayor Andrea Horwath said she wants the city to go further.
I question the implied success rate of transitions from “Tiny Homes” to regular housing given the rental rate crisis in Canada and the shortage of public housing.
“Housing First” has not been the hoped for success in the US it was hoped to be.
A drug addict is still an addict whether in a tent or tiny home.
