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For the second consecutive year, more than 100 people have died while staying at a Toronto shelter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0latest data<\/a>, which was recently released, shows 110 unhoused individuals \u2013 81 men, 29 women \u2013 passed away while staying in a Toronto shelter in 2022. The average age of those who died is 51<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is slightly down from 2021, which saw 132 shelter resident deaths in the city. That year, the average age of those who died was 47<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it still an alarmingly high tally, advocates for the homeless say<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c110 is still way too many,\u201d street pastor Doug Johnson Hatlem, of Sanctuary Ministries, told\u00a0CP24.com<\/a>. \u201cThis is a city, a country where if we put our minds to it we could have zero shelter deaths\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2010, Johnson Hatlem has helped organize the Toronto Homeless Memorial, which is held on every second Tuesday of the month outside downtown\u2019s Church of the Holy Trinity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said many of the people he and his team have added to the growing tribute were shelter residents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really significant the number of people that died before their time on the street. These latest numbers show that homelessness is a death sentence in Toronto,\u201d Johnson Hatlem said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018IT DOESN\u2019T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While there were 110 deaths involving shelter residents in Toronto in 2022, it should be noted that\u00a0another 92 unhoused individuals died in the city last year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That pushed the total number of deaths involving underhoused individuals to above 200 for the second straight year<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa LeBlanc has lived in Toronto shelters for the last eight years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said she\u2019s known of dozens of people who have passed away during that time, including at least five people in the last year at the shelter-hotel she calls home in downtown Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSadly, there\u2019s a lot that goes on here. They don\u2019t really tell people what\u2019s going on, but we hear rumours through the grapevine. \u2026 One death is too many,\u201d she told CP24.com during a recent interview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that one of those individuals was a woman who was \u201cloved by everyone.\u201d Her death was \u201creally traumatizing,\u201d for a lot of people in the shelter, she said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so sad. It\u2019s unfortunate because it doesn\u2019t have to be this way,\u201d LeBlanc said, adding a lot of those who died accidentally overdosed on drugs, which many use to cope with the trauma and mental health challenges they deal with every day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s hard, but it shouldn\u2019t be this hard. People don\u2019t choose to be homeless or in a shelter\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LeBlanc said while the best solution is to get people good, affordable housing with supports, treating unhoused people with more kindness, empathy, and understanding would go a long way<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis experience has changed my life and not for the better. \u2026 It\u2019s no way to live,\u201d she said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Shelter\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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INCREASE IN DRUG TOXICITY COULD BE TO BLAME FOR HIGH NUMBER OF DEATHS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a statement provided to CP24.com, City of Toronto spokesperson Anthony Toderian said the municipality is \u201cdeeply saddened by all deaths of people experiencing homelessness both in and outside of the city’s shelter system\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toderian, however, said that an increase in drug toxicity continues to result in an uptick in shelter deaths<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRates of non-fatal and fatal opioid poisoning remain consistently high. The unregulated drug supply is increasingly toxic and unpredictable. From January to September 2022, 59 per cent of deaths in homeless service settings were due to confirmed or suspected overdoses,\u201d he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2020, the city in partnership with community agencies launched the \u201cmulti-pronged\u201d Integrated Prevention and Harm Reduction Initiative (iPHARE) to address opioid-related deaths in Toronto\u2019s shelter system<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the program provided more than $9 million in funding for a range of harm reduction supports, including placing embedded harm reduction workers or visiting harm reduction outreach workers at 23 shelters, respites and shelter hotel locations identified as priority sites based on overdose data<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toderian said that the good news is that while 2022 saw increased demand for shelter services compared to 2021, that didn\u2019t result in an increase in the number of deaths of shelter residents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis demonstrates that shelter policies and harm reduction initiatives are making an impact and helping to save lives,\u201d he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progress, however, appears to be slow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, Toderian said the city is \u201curging the provincial and federal governments to allocate additional funding for long-term investments to address the scale of need for mental health, harm reduction and treatment resources\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toronto\u2019s Shelter, Support and Housing Administration Division has collected data on shelter deaths since 2007 and conducts an annual review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That first year, there were 24 deaths recorded in Toronto\u2019s shelters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2019, the number of people who died in the system reached 48<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following year, in 2020, when the pandemic began, shelter deaths jumped to 74<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, more than 100 people have died in Toronto\u2019s shelters each year<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joanna Lavoie<\/a>,\u00a0CP24 Web Content Writer<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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