Tag: Ark Aid Street Mission
Plan to put housing on city parking lots gathers steam
City staff are recommending the city pursue housing development on a parking lot in Old East Village and two lots at Ridout and Horton
If city council ends Watson Park camp, where will the homeless go?
London homeless helpers understand city council’s desire to dismantle an encampment after a fire and propane tank explosion – they just wonder where residents will go. This week, a council committee backed Ward 1 Coun. Hadleigh McAlister’s emergency motion to close the city-run service depot at the Watson Street Park encampment, and to have city […]
Councillor loses bid to quash homeless drop-in services at Ark Aid
Funding for homeless drop-in services at Ark Aid Street Mission will continue to flow, despite the ward councillor putting up an intense fight to halt it. In a 9-5 vote at a city council meeting Tuesday, councillors resurrected a motion quashed at a committee meeting in March to give $611,000 to the agency so it […]
Business groups split over $611K for daytime homeless help
Groups representing businesses in two districts on the front lines of London’s homelessness crisis are at odds over continued funding of drop-in services at a London agency. City councillors will be asked Tuesday to approve $611,000 in funding for Ark Aid Mission so the agency can provide laundry, meals and showers during the day at […]
$600K for homeless drop-in services at agency hits roadblock
City funding for encampment outreach and 88 shelter beds is poised to continue, but more than $600,000 in funding for homeless drop-in services at one London agency is in jeopardy after a tie vote Monday at a city council committee. Nearly $3.6 million in funding was endorsed by the community and protective services committee for […]