Toronto is struggling to deal with homelessness amid a housing crisis, drug addiction and the mental health struggles that come with that, and general affordability for anything from gas to groceries.
Shared widely on social media, a video — first posted on the account of Prosperity_Train — shows all of those things rolled into one troubling video.
A person on the TTC turned their camera on fellow passengers. Among the regular riders going about their day was one person sprawled across several seats sleeping, while another slept on the floor.
The person filming walked along the streetcar to where two security staffers stood by a woman who was hunched over, though it was unclear what she is doing.
“The level of homelessness is crazy,” the account captioned the video.
Another X user, Justice_Queen, reshared with the comment: “Housing crisis, mental health crisis and drug crisis all in one video.”
The footage is believed to be either the 509, which travels along the lakefront, based on the announcement of Rees St. being the next stop.
Most of the comments described the scene as “sad” while others couldn’t believe it was in Toronto.
“My God, what a horror show. And we thought this was just in American cities or Skid Row,” one person remarked.
Another wrote, “If Toronto can’t come up with better solutions for the inter-connected drug, mental health and homelessness crisis, people like me will avoid taking transit.”
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