Executive Committee at Toronto Council has decided to buy the Comfort Inn East motel on Kingston Road and convert to what will be known as the Birchmount Men’s Shelter. Resistance to the idea has been strenuous in the area around the motel. The shelter will house 120 men all over 55 years. “The headline of our concerns is not that we don’t want it, it is that we don’t want it because we’re supporting enough (assisted housing) already,” said area resident Tom Moloney is quoted by CP24. “The issue is the placement of a large social housing project for needy people in a small footprint when there is so much else in the neighbourhood.”
