My Charges Were Withdrawn (Free Improvisation)
Channel: Adam Golding
Date: 02/11/2021

https://www.facebook.com/adamgolding/posts/10108628090858832

We need to implement SHJN’s winter plan:

http://www.shjn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Winter-Plan-Final.pdf

How do we do it? I think we need to petition the Mayor’s office to ask for help up the chain, as the military explained to me:

https://www.facebook.com/adamgolding/posts/10108627729787422

His office doesn’t return my calls any more, they’ll have to return yours, collectively, or we will witness another series of needless deaths in our streets this winter. Inclusionary Zoning is a nice historic feather Tory seeks to put in his cap but it does nothing to address the emergency need for housing today, during the first state of emergency Toronto has declared in its history. In the document below you will see the sort of action and the lag-times we are seeing when it comes to housing the vulnerable–sleeping in a park for 5-months before receiving emergency housing is considered a surprisingly good turnaround time: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eV9oGzPo0RaeY5y0pDgEvzpsXP9VJLf6Lvilh2hTH4I/edit “Wartime speed”, my ass.

The federal government can expropriate housing to resolve this crisis, this is not a lack of supply it is a failure of unregulated markets to do what is right of their own free will–we must use state monopoly on power not to crush opposition but to actually begin at the bottom of maslow’s heirarchy. This is a failure of politics, and of politics only, in that there is adequate supply globally for all our basic needs to be met, but the corrective will in many cases begin locally–in your own neighbourhood, you may see an obvious mismatch: middle managers stress about their vacation destination while others debate which sleeping arrangements are most lethal. “Community safety” is code for “house safety” and the mayor expertly avoids the subject. Well let’s talk about it every day–we’ve had daily covid briefings till we’re blue in the face, what we need today is a daily homelessness briefing with the city until we solve this most basic of modern problems.

Contact the Mayor's office today with these demands:

https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/council/office-of-the-mayor