Big sigh. Makes you feel good all over, doesn't it? So what are the criteria for access to one of those BACHELOR apartments? Will the better behaving individuals from the Jarvis St. shelter(for example) be put on top of the list? Or is it first junky comes, first served? Btw, that's 56 units ready, 44 in the pipeline and 150 next year. To put it in perspective; due to the procedural problems the TCHC administers on average 1400 apartments that sit empty at the annual cost to the taxpayers of around 7 million. And there are literally thousands of other units that are currently vacant and boarded up due to lack of maintenance- a backlog of 1.5 billion to 3 billion, depending who you ask. The modular shelter seems like a good idea and it doesn't look terrible, but in the light of the structural problems in basic management at the TCHC it's neither an answer in the terms of numbers nor utility.
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