A person is dead after falling from the 22nd floor of a public housing building, the site of two other fatalities within the past six months.

Police confirmed the person fell from a balcony at 200 Wellesley St. E. at about 7:30 p.m. Monday. They do not suspect foul play, though the incident is still under investigation.

Cliff Martin, the tenant representative at the Toronto Community Housing Corporation highrise, said he believed the victim was a visitor whom he’d seen around the building before.

“I run into a lot of people and I have small conversations with them and I’m not sure if I prevent anything but at least I talk to people,” Martin said. “(The residents) could use some crisis management. We do that for less in other places.”

In June, a man fell from a balcony on the 22nd floor of the building and died. Another man fell to his death from that same balcony in October.

Martin said he believed the building’s latest victim fell from the balcony just next door to the one involved in the earlier incidents.

“Some of this can be prevented,” he said, blaming the incidents on a combination of mental health problems and poverty that could be addressed by psychiatric counselling and better management of public housing by TCHC.

“We’re falling down in a lot of areas and the federal government and the province have to help with respect to mental health and social housing because it happens that they go together.”