Pros and Cons of Shelters.

There are roughly 75 homeless shelters within the GTA including Toronto. Shelters will most often provide the homeless with a bed to sleep in and possibly a meal or two. They do not stay open 24 hours as it is not a place that they want people to live in. In most cases they close in the morning and kick everyone out, and then reopen their doors in the evening where people can come in hopes of there being an available bed to sleep in. These shelters are not always as amazing as they seem from the outside. Many times they sleep in cramped condition with only a few toilets to share amongst a few hundred people toppled with less than sustainable food. A article from the Toronto Star  gives some more insight into what some of the homeless shelters look like (https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/01/21/we-are-housing-people-in-places-that-are-not-shelters.html). The difficulty with the shelters is that they are underfunded, understaffed, and unsupervised, but not all is lost, donations can help as some shelters are in need to updated beds and kitchen appliances. The greatest thing that anyone can offer a homeless shelter is their time, shelters are always looking for volunteers to assist in many different types of jobs.