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Collected Item: “Toronto wants to offer free hotel rooms to people with COVID-19 who can’t isolate at home”

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Toronto wants to offer free hotel rooms to people with COVID-19 who can’t isolate at home

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

news article

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

"Toronto officials want to be able to offer free hotel rooms to people contagious with COVID-19 but unable to isolate in their own crowded homes." "Toronto virus hotspots include low-income areas where many people live in crowded circumstances and don’t have room at home to self-isolate."

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

housing, isolating, home, local government

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2020/06/24/toronto-wants-to-offer-free-hotel-rooms-to-people-with-covid-19-who-cant-isolate-at-home.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=TorontoCityHall&utm_content=toronto-wants-to-offer-free-hotel-rooms-to-people-with-covid-19-who-cant-isolate-at-home&utm_source=twitter&source=torontostar&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=&utm_campaign_id=&utm_content=

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

David Rider, Toronto Star

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2020-06-24
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