OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is from a person who has been experiencing homelessness for nine months, most recently in Orillia.
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Never before in history have we seen a situation where people are economically rendered unable to help one another. It might be a nefarious and deliberate division strategy to usher in authoritarian rule or a reactionary consequence of random economics, or some degree of both.
As I approach my ninth month homeless, I notice that people who want to aid the homeless are basically threatened with homelessness themselves. Landlords and property managers have stringent and controlling policies/rules. Constantly. Place after a place I stay.
I have employment lined up, but nowhere to go. I wonder how many reasonably honourable people are in this exact situation.
Scrap any governing body or policy that indirectly sentences innocent people to die from lack. How can we live under cruelty and abuse and keep it in power willingly?
Tyler James Dunlop
Orillia
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