{"id":701,"date":"2006-04-17T12:54:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=701"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:43:55","slug":"toronto-homeless-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/17\/toronto-homeless-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto homeless survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/homeless-BS.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gray writes in today&#8217;s <em>Globe and Mail<\/em>:<br \/>\n<!-- \/Summary --><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A controversial one-night city survey of the homeless is set to go ahead this week, despite opposition from some activists and a shortage of volunteers to walk the streets of suburban areas looking for homeless people. Most of the 1,700 volunteers for what the city calls its &#8220;street-needs assessment&#8221; have signed up to work downtown, or in the city&#8217;s shelters, for the Wednesday night survey. Iain De Jong, the director of the city&#8217;s Streets into Homes initiative, says officials could still use another 100 to 150 volunteers for the project, in order to cover the wide boulevards of the former cities of North York, Etobicoke and Scarborough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cathy Crowe of the Toronto Disaster Relief is opposed to this survey because her group already has a good estimate of the homeless (they deal with them daily) &#8212; she feels the numbers will be less than accurate because of the short duration of the survey and that the numbers will play right into the hands of right-wing councillors who see homelessness as a nuisance rather than a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly bothersome to me is the last line in this quote (italicized): &#8220;Teams of two or three volunteers, led by professionals who work with the homeless, will approach people who look homeless between 7 p.m. and 12 a.m. and ask them to participate in a five- or 10-minute survey. <em>Those who do will receive a $5 fast-food voucher.<\/em>&#8221; I recognize the ease of access fast food chains offer to the homeless, but wouldn&#8217;t a grocery store voucher be better suited (for healthy reasons)? Or am I expecting too much from the City on this?<\/p>\n<p>Read the Globe article by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20060417.HOMELESS17\/TPStory\/TPNational\/\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/aidanfotos.com\">Bouke Salverda<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Gray writes in today&#8217;s Globe and Mail: A controversial one-night city survey of the homeless is set to go ahead this week, despite opposition from some activists and a shortage of volunteers to walk the streets of suburban areas looking for homeless people. 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