The front door of this apartment building on the downtown east side is unlocked. In the foyer, a breeze blows through a window propped up with a beer bottle and moves dust amid broken glass and plastic bags.
Down the hallway, we pass walls covered with half-finished thoughts in black marker, and at the end, a puddle of water. And more glass.
Street Health’s Gaetan Heroux turns to me. “So, are people housed, Mike?” In this building lives a tenant who is a beneficiary of the city’s Streets To Homes project.
When I visited the supported rooming house where Robert Maurice lived before dying on the street, I was amazed that anyone could share a room as small as his – but that place was clean, well maintained. This, well, my first thought is that if I were good at living on the street I might prefer that.
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