New shelter spaces for human trafficking survivors a bright spot in region’s housing budget

“They want to get out, honestly, if you talk to any girl in the system, they want to get out, but they are too scared. There needs to be a secure location that nobody knows about…there is no phone access, there is no nothing. The girls can be taken to that safe house. If they know that it is there; then they will be more willing to come out. Until that is there, they will not come out. Because the pimps will torture, they will beat, and they will kill.” 

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With a Region of Peel 2020 budget that is short on solutions and investments to tackle the growing affordable housing crisis, one critical area is being looked after. 

Peel is moving forward with help to make sure survivors of human trafficking have somewhere to go when fleeing these dangerous criminal networks operating in the region. 

Published December 12, 2019 in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga