Tommy Taylor

he/him Community Worker & Leader, Prev Manager: @HUCCHC & @TODropinNetwork, @SafeCity_TO Steering Cmts: @HPAP_Ontario & @SHJNetwork , Theatre Artist-#G20Romp

[Tommy Taylor @TommyTaylorTO]

Frontline staff across Hamilton's emergency food sector say top drivers of food insecurity are:
💰100% said food cost
📥 92% said inadequate OW/ODSP rates
🏠 96% said housing costs
🍎33% of clients rely on food banks as ONLY source of food. 56% say it's most. #HamOnt 2/2

[Tommy Taylor @TommyTaylorTO]

⚠️Hamilton's Food Banks were never designed to carry this load. Food insecurity is not a food problem 👉 It's an income & housing problem.
🔗NEW FULL REPORT: https://t.co/TeTx5q2ZJV #HamOnt
@RobinLennox @HFShare @urbanicityHAM @LauraBabcock @EasyThePianoMan @RTRCoalition 1/2

[Tommy Taylor @TommyTaylorTO]

REPORT: Food banks are the paramedics, not the cure.
27.3% of Hamilton households are food-insecure. Frontline workers are clear on the drivers: food prices, housing costs, low social assistance rates.
#HamOnt #FoodInsecurity #FoodBanks #ODSP 1/3

[Tommy Taylor @TommyTaylorTO]

⚠️Food banks were never designed to carry this load.
👉 Food insecurity is not a food problem. It's an income and housing problem.
📄 Full report: https://t.co/TeTx5q3xzt
#HamOnt
@CameronKroetsch @RobinLennox @n2nCentre @NrinderWard3 @TomCoopster @SPRCHamOnt @jennygirlb73 3/3

[Tommy Taylor @TommyTaylorTO]

REPORT: Food banks are the paramedics, not the cure.
27.3% of Hamilton households are food-insecure. Frontline workers are clear on the drivers: food prices, housing costs, low social assistance rates.
#HamOnt #FoodInsecurity #FoodBanks #ODSP 1/3

[Tommy Taylor @TommyTaylorTO]

Frontline staff across Hamilton's emergency food sector say top drivers of food insecurity are:
💰100% said food cost
🏠 96% said housing costs
📥 92% said inadequate OW/ODSP rates

🍎33% of clients rely on food banks as their ONLY source of food. 56% say its most. #HamOnt 2/3

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

This is shocking. Since @fordnation shut down supervised consumption sites, drop-in programs are seeing massive increases in overdoses — including a 288% increase just last month.

Overdoses don't go away; they get moved to spaces with fewer supports and resources.

[Jeff Schlemmer @Jeff_Schlemmer_]

Canadian seniors are the fastest growing demographic in shelters. Because as rents increased by 100% over the past decade the Trudeau government only increased CPP/OAS/GIS by 26%. What an ignominious end we offer our respected elders. https://t.co/yMFIKI69s6 (And ourselves when we get old.)

[Jeff Schlemmer @Jeff_Schlemmer_]

"Opinion | We can do better than endlessly displacing people from one campsite to the next."
Yet this is the only strategy the right can seem to think of for this crisis. https://t.co/1gQSdtw3Mw

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Fun Fact: Homelessness also costs taxpayers. In fact, it costs less to provide safe housing to end homelessness than it does to manage homelessness indefinitely — particularly through health care and criminal justice costs. The healthiest choice is also the cheapest.

[Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) @HousingRightsCA]

Ontario has reintroduced Bill 6, which will punish encampment residents even though they have nowhere else to go.

We've joined the Encampment Justice Coalition to ask Premier Ford to rescind Bill 6 and commit to housing, not punishment.

Read more: https://t.co/xPxqqgkXqa

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Homelessness has soared in Ontario since the last provincial election.

A report released in January showed that between 2022 and 2024, the province’s known homeless population shot up by 25 per cent to 81,515 people. https://t.co/B66Yq4yERW

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Support Your Neighbourhood Shelter! The first batch of window signs and stickers have just dropped, and distribution is coming soon! Unhoused people are our neighbours 💕

Many thanks to Katie Carey for the illustration: https://t.co/HVzKaczEAq

[Tommy Taylor @TommyTaylorTO]

@JruGordon37 @CP24 Terrible on economics and ethics. Recent Correctional Service of Canada report pegs the daily cost of maintaining inmates at about $345 per day (2019-20 statistics), or on average of just more than $126,000 per year – more than two times the average annual salary in Canada.

[CathyCrowe @cathycrowe.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @cathyacrowe]

Evil.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

Thank you to @NrinderWard3 @CameronKroetsch for your remarks today in #HamOnt City Council. Encampment residents' right to life must be defended, and the focus must be on the resources we need for people to be well — namely, housing.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

We don't need to share the same politics to want to see less encampments. But there's only one solution to homelessness: housing. @fordnation would rather remove homeless people's Charter rights than do his job to address the housing crisis. Sign & share: https://t.co/PpFHkgdsD3

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

NIMBYism, including opposition to homeless shelters, is often a proxy for intentional segregation. A healthy, inclusive city shouldn't protect pre-existing demographic patterns — Birch Cliff is older, wealthier, whiter than the avg. — at a cost to the poor.https://t.co/18oZG77PVL

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

The change being sought by @ONBigCityMayors is to invoke the notwithstanding clause to circumvent the law and enable encampment evictions and forced treatment. If implemented, this motion would represent a significant erosion of encampment residents' fundamental Charter rights.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

It's so hard for the public to viscerally understand how bad policy manifests for encampment residents. This is a stunning, albeit familiar portrait of the senselessness, duplicity, shiftlessness, and abandonment Canadian society forces you to endure. https://t.co/8dfOezpFNU