Toronto Shelter Says One-Third of Its Residents Are Students
Supply squeeze has pushed rents up 20% in Canada’s largest city in last year
The homework room at the Horizons for Youth shelter.
Photographer: Photographer: Della Rollins/Bloomberg
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Mark Aston has met hundreds of teenagers and young adults at the youth homeless shelter he manages, but he will never forget the first time a Toronto Metropolitan University mechanical engineering student walked through his doors in 2019.
She was out of options: After a family breakdown, she couldn’t go home and she lacked the money to support herself in Toronto’s red-hot housing market, forcing her to turn to the shelter for help.