TORONTO — The City of Toronto says it is moving some people living in tents into apartment buildings as part of its effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the city’s homeless population.
Encampments have sprouted up across the city as those living in shelters have taken to the outdoors during the pandemic. The city says it has leased and furnished two buildings in the midtown are that had been slated for demolition.
It says each unit will have a kitchen, wireless internet and cable television. About three dozen people living in tents outside a drop-in centre will be the first to move into the apartments. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] Toronto Public Health says 211 people in the shelter system