Policing the Homeless Initiative

With Fair Change Community Services, the Policing the Homeless Initiative (PHI) based at the University of Toronto, has officially launched 'Guidance on Homelessness and Public Transit' pamphlets for the city of Toronto and Canada-Wide. We want to emphasize the importance of accessible public transit, especially for those experiencing homelessness. For more information or to download the pamphlets, please visit: http://policinghomelessness.ca/transit_site.html. ... #homeless #homelessnessawareness #transit #ttc #neovagrancy

With Fair Change Community Services, we have launched 'Guidance on Homelessness and Public Transit' pamphlets for the GTA and Canada-Wide. We want to emphasize the importance of public transit, especially for those experiencing homelessness. For more information, and to download the pamphlets, please visit: http://policinghomelessness.ca/transit_site.html

We are proud to be partnering with Fair Change Community Services to produce a 'Guidance on Homelessness and Public Transit' pamphlet. Stay tuned for it's launch later this week. To learn more about Fair Change Community Services, visit their website below.

"We call these laws neo-vagrancy laws because they revive a key purpose of archaic vagrancy law: to punish people who are visibly poor and have no choice but to spend their time in public spaces". Learn more about our new mapping tool and understand the current by-laws that police and restrict the poor.

What is a neo-vagrancy offence? It is a prohibition which revives aspects of repealed and discredited archaic vagrancy law, and there are 367 offences found in 217 Municipal By-laws (and two provincial Acts) across the country. Read more about these anti-homeless offences and see our mapping project at: http://covid19-phi.ca/mapOne.html #neovagrancy #policing #homeless