You don't find something like East Hastings in Toronto, but sheer numbers are comparable. Toronto just has a more even geographic distribution of people living

You don't find something like East Hastings in Toronto, but sheer numbers are comparable. Toronto just has a more even geographic distribution of people living rough. Toronto also pioneered mixed-income housing and recently tore down its 1960s-era "urban renewal" projects so it has a longer history of addressing homelessness, but it's still a major and mostly invisible problem (people living rough is generally not a homelessness problem but a mental health problem). My spouse is a case worker in the housing department of an Ontario municipality so I get all kinds of inside information on the subject.