Homeless Deaths Motion at City Hall

There is a motion recommended by Paul Ainslie and Joe Cressy regarding homeless deaths in the Toronto community.

The following is a list of their recommendations from the City of Toronto website.  City council will be considering this motion on March.31st, 2016.

UPDATE: Motion passed 36-1!!

Recommendations

Councillor Paul Ainslie, seconded by Councillor Joe Cressy, recommends that: 1. City Council direct the City Manager to instruct the appropriate City staff to collect all relevant data related to the deaths of homeless individuals for occurrences within and outside homeless shelters. 2.  City Council direct that the data collected be shared with the public, agencies, City divisions and Provincial Government ministries for the purposes of influencing decision making through policy and legislation. 3. City Council direct the City Manager to correspond with the appropriate staff within the Government of Ontario in support of introducing a provincial mandate to track all deaths of homeless individuals for the purposes of data collection to introduce policy and legislation.