The City of Toronto is looking into micro shelters, tiny portable homes, as a possible piece of its solution to homelessness.

The two-year pilot asks non-profits to design micro-residences for people experiencing homelessness ...

A year ago, the City of Toronto didn’t want micro shelters on public property. Now, after another brutal winter season, the city appears set to potentially embrace the idea.  It was last winter that ...

The number of homeless encampments has declined across Toronto in the past year, according to city officials, but at least one advocate says the city has simply moved unhoused people out of sight.

For the past six years, people in neon vests patrolled Toronto homeless shelters, respite sites and encampments, acting as bouncers and security guards on behalf of the city — sensitive work that ...

A year after Toronto staff sent a cease and desist to a man who built several tiny mobile homes for those experiencing ...

The homelessness crisis happening in Toronto is best described by one social worker as “completely out of control.” “We have ...

New data from Fred Victor, a registered charity and leader in ending homelessness in Toronto, found that half of Canadians (49%) agree that homelessness has become so common in their community it’s ...

For the past six years, people in neon vests patrolled Toronto homeless shelters, respite sites and encampments, acting as bouncers and security guards on behalf of the city — sensitive work that ...

This wish to support unhoused Torontonians became apparent in December 2025, when the City of Toronto put out a call for “expressions of interest” from nonprofits keen to establish a tiny home ...