The City of Toronto is struggling to cope with an ongoing housing crisis that has left thousands homeless and hundreds dying on our streets. A study on housing in Toronto reveals that 550,000 people here are living in poverty — that’s roughly 25% of the city’s population. With few options available to them, thousands of these people are finding themselves living on the streets where, in 2002, thirty-two-thousand different people stayed in Toronto’s emergency shelters — 4,779 of these were children. Add to this the fact that well over five hundred men, women, and children have died on the streets as a direct result of homelessness. With the financial crisis being felt all around the world, there are no indications that the situation is any better today. For one of the wealthiest cities in the world, how can this be allowed to happen?

The following photos tell the stories of a few of the people who have found themselves losing control over their lives, living in government housing or on the streets, as well as the stories of how some people are raising questions about the City’s priorities and looking for solutions themselves.

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