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RSS FeedsUnder the Gardiner: `We check in on each other, that´s kind of the reason to be here´
(The Star Travel)

 
 

18 january 2019 16:27:18

 
Under the Gardiner: `We check in on each other, that´s kind of the reason to be here´
(The Star Travel)
 


Richard Smith pokes his head out of his green and grey tent as his dog Pixie sleeps inside beside him.The tent is draped in sleeping bags — improvised insulation in freezing temperatures that on this day feels like -12 C. Scattered around it are propane tanks he uses to cook, and empty water bottles. A frying pan, pot and dishtowel rest on a small wooden platform next to a large cooler. Nearby, one of his neighbours collects wood for a stove that feeds into a tiny chimney poking out of the top of his own tent, where a single light bulb glows behind the nylon.“A lot of people don’t even realize there’s people in them,” says Smith of their makeshift homes.“We’re pretty tight, pretty good people. We check in on each other, that’s kind of the reason to be here.”Smith is one of about a half dozen men, he says, who have set up camp under the Gardiner near Spadina Ave. in the shadow of some of the most expensive condos in the country. He says they’re staking out a sliver of privacy and protection from the elements in a city with a dwindling housing supply and a packed shelter system. The city handed out eight notices to people like Smith, although he says he didn’t personally receive one, starting last Thursday. Officials told them to get out in 14 days, citing public safety issues. But as temperatures drop, amidst three homeless deaths in less than two weeks, advocates, and some of the men themselves, say there’s simply nowhere for them to go.“It’s a Catch-22,” says Smith, who’s been camping here on and off for about two years after losing his apartment and job following an arrest.“They say there’s places for us,” he adds. But he’d like to see them.The city’s chief communications officer Brad Ross said notices were issued because of public safety issues with right of way, debris and reports of open flames and propane.As of Thursday, according t ...


 
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