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Assessing Changes to the Interdivisional Protocol on Encampments (IDP) for Alignment with the Toronto Housing Charter
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The decision
2025-12-09 · Executive Committee · referred
As filed
The Executive Committee: 1. Referred Item EX28.21 to the City Manager for consideration as part of the City's continued commitment to progressively realizing the right to adequate housing and future updates to the Interdivisional Protocol on Encampments.
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As the city filed it
At its meeting on November 19, 2025, the Housing Rights Advisory Committee considered Item HS8.11 and made recommendations to City Council. Summary from the Housing Rights Advisory Committee: As a member of the Housing Rights Advisory Committee (HRAC) and Chair of its Supporting Unhoused Rights Holders Working Group, it is imperative to my work - and the broader work of the Committee - that the rights of people who are unsheltered and living in encampments are both respected and upheld in the City of Toronto's policies and practices.
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It is therefore of the utmost concern that recent changes to the Interdivisional Protocol on Encampments (IDP), passed by City Council on November 14th 2025 , represents retrogression - a violation of unhoused people's human rights. These changes effectively suspend human rights for encampment residents within prescribed "bubble zones," including by placing a limit on the number of shelter offers a resident can receive. This is a deliberate incursion on the established human rights principles set out in the original IDP, i.e., retrogression.
Staff recommended
The Housing Rights Advisory Committee recommends that the Executive Committee: 1. Request City Council to request that the General Manager, Shelter and Support Services ensure that any changes to the Interdivisional Protocol on Encampments (IDP) be assessed for compliance with the City's obligation to realize the right to adequate housing, as affirmed in the Toronto Housing Charter, national and international law, and be undertaken in consultation with the Housing Rights Advisory Committee.
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