Ford government promised these health-care centres would be far better than supervised consumption sites. Are they actually working?

For Dylan McCormack-Woolacoot, finding a place to sleep at night is a moving target.

Seated outside a Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hub in Toronto, he explained his current strategy. He’ll typically set up a tent behind the centre around 8 p.m. At sunrise, staff wake up him and “gently” tell him that he can’t stay here.

The HART Hubs were created as part of the province’s plan to move away from harm reduction and get people into treatment and housing. During a recent evening visit to this location, operated by the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre, several people were sleeping in bed rolls directly in front of the site’s doors.

The creation of the HART Hubs signalled a major change in health-care delivery for people with addictions, with the province inv