The Canadian government, under pressure over images showing asylum seekers sleeping on the streets of Toronto, on Tuesday said it would give the city an extra C$97 million ($73.6 million) to help meet the demand for housing.
The money is part of a C$212 million one-time injection to help major cities deal with rising numbers of arrivals flowing from the United States and elsewhere, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said in a statement.
"These people are left homeless and living on the kindness of strangers who give them food, water, sleeping bags, and some clothing, as they try to survive in the heat and rain," city legislator Kevin Vuong wrote to Trudeau last week.
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