The filed record
Assessing Changes to the Interdivisional Protocol on Encampments (IDP) for Alignment with the Toronto Housing Charter
The Public Gallery wrote no story on this item. What follows is the city’s own record of what happened to it, as filed: nothing on this page is summarised or scored by us.
The decision
2025-11-19 · Housing Rights Advisory Committee · adopted
As filed
The Housing Rights Advisory Committee recommended 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.
On the agenda
As the city filed it
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. 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.
Show the rest of As the city filed it, 314 more characters as filed
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: 1. City Council 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.
On the record
More from this meeting
- Chair UpdateFiled record
- Advancing the Right to Adequate Housing in the 2026 City of Toronto BudgetFiled record
- Centralized Access System for Affordable Rental and Rent-Geared-to-Income HomesFiled record
- Supporting Unhoused Rights Holders Working Group Chair UpdateFiled record
- Improving Access to Housing Working Group Chair UpdateFiled record
- Maintaining Housing Working Group Chair UpdateFiled record