Daily Shelter & Overnight Service Occupancy & Capacity

This data set provides a daily list of active overnight shelter and allied services in the Toronto Shelter and Support Services division's Shelter Management Information System (SMIS) database. The data provides daily updated information about shelter and overnight service programs administered by TSSS including the program's operator, location, classification, occupancy and capacity. This reporting revises and updates the approach taken in the [Daily Shelter Occupancy data set] (https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/daily-shelter-occupancy/), starting with the current year data for 2021. This new data set includes the following revisions: * Overnight service type: The previous data set only reported on shelter programs, now all overnight service types where occupancy is tracked in SMIS are included. * Capacity type: Programs are categorized in this data set as having either bed based or room based capacity. Bed based capacity is typically applicable for programs with common sleeping areas, while room based capacity is typically applicable for family programs and hotel programs where sleeping rooms are not shared by people from different households. This change prevents over reporting…

Publisher

City of Toronto

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6

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-09-12