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‘People should never live like this!’ Life inside a Wards Island homeless shelter

By Dean Moses Posted on August 30, 2021
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Anthony Simmons has lived in a homeless shelter on Wards Island for five years, and he says as time has passed, the conditions have progressively worsened — especially after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in the spring of 2020.

Simmons, who is wheelchair-bound, said that dozens of homeless individuals with disabilities at the shelter are forced to share two bathrooms and one shower that are grossly infested with cockroaches, waterbugs and flies.

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‘People should never live like this!’ Life inside a Wards Island homeless shelter

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