Tag: Health and Homelessness Whole Of Community System Response
City’s encampment strategy lists places that would be off-limits
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News City hall is stepping up with a new strategy to deal with encampments, a welcome first step, some say,
City eyes extending homeless encampment depots for at least a year
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Published Jun 13, 2024 • Last updated 12 minutes ago • 2 minute read A homeless camp at Wellington Valley Park in
Pearson: Homeless dementia link should inform community response
Our tendency to believe dementia and Alzheimer’s mostly affect senior populations is questionable.
No, another homeless hub isn’t planned for Wellington Road: City officials
There’s no proposed homeless hub for a location on Wellington Road that already has drawn opposition from neighbours over a requested zoning change, city hall and social service leaders say. “It was on our radar because we had partnership conversations with the landlord, but it didn’t get any further because of the proximity to the […]
Coffee house opens overnight for homeless turned away from shelters
A daytime coffee house for homeless Londoners has begun opening at night for up to 15 people at a time to sit, get warm and have some soup and a hot beverage.
Top city manager extends term to help with budget, homelessness plan
London’s city manager will stay on an extra four months as council begins its multi-year budget and the health and homelessness plan continues to roll out Lynne Livingstone had planned to retire at the end of December, but pushed it back to mid-March at Mayor Josh Morgan’s request. “Lynne is a longtime, exceptional leader to […]
North London motel tenants, businesses relieved by homeless hub reversal
Linda Boxall said she screamed with excitement when she learned Monday that she wouldn’t be forced from the north London motel she’s called home for five years by the opening of a homeless hub. Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services ((CMHATV)) announced Monday it is scrapping its plan to open […]
BREAKING: Controversial homeless hub in north London motel derailed
A plan to put a homeless hub in a motel already housing low-income Londoners has been scrapped, the organization that was to operate the hub announced Monday. “We’re in the business of helping people, not making other people homeless,” Pam Hill, regional director of the Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health […]
Housed and hopeful: One woman’s path to London’s new homeless system
The one time in the past 10 years Brittany had a home, she turned the apartment unit into a trap house – a place for selling and using drugs and selling sex. After so many years living on the street and battling addiction and declining health, four walls and a roof over her head weren’t […]
‘No place to go’: Motel dwellers fear homeless hub will force them out
In an unfortunate paradox, London’s groundbreaking plan to tackle its homelessness crisis risks displacing residents of a small inn, who worry they’ll be left homeless themselves.