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soldier-poet-king · 3 years

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anyway instead of working on my paper i just read a lengthy article on the housing crisis in toronto and now im 1) bawling 2) angry

people always ask why i hate toronto and 1) i can never afford to live here even if it didnt lack green spaces which means i dont even WANT to live here 2) (middle class + affluent) torontonians are rude, selfish, and SO full of ‘toronto pride’ bc we’re a developing ‘first class’ city or whatever, and we’ve got fancy sports teams and a lot of movies and shows film here, while completely ignoring the cost to the people on the fringes of society, the poor, the refugees, the ill, who get trampled under this unending need for ‘progress’ and ‘development’

im just?? im sick of it? the author makes an interesting point - illness, tragedy, poverty - things that often lead to homelessness, these aren’t new phenomena, but the mass homelessness facing the city is

it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why

#and this article was pre covid #it's only gotten worse now #there's been a large number of evictions in the city #the shelter system is overwhelmed food banks are overwhelmed #and i have so little money #technically no money bc what little i have saved covers maybe 1/5 of my student loans #and that's bc im not paying rent by suffering my parents for the time being #im just...im afraid?#not just for myself (tho i do fear being elderly and alone with no children to care for me)#but for humanity as a whole #i dont even live downtown there's no shelters or foodbanks for me to volutneer at #if we werent in covid i'd at least have to go downtown for class and i could find a nearby shelter or kitchen to help at

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