Tag: Homeless
Critics rip city hall silence on winter homeless shelter controversy
As concerns grew about how London handled contracts to look after the homeless during the pandemic, and millions in taxpayers’ dollars flowed to one agency hired to run a winter shelter,
How city hall proposes spending $2.35M to help London’s most vulnerable
Contracts worth a combined $2.35 million to offer programs serving the hardest-hit Londoners during the next year – including mental health and addictions treatment, emergency housing and hoarding programs – are up for political approval at city hall next week. All the funding comes from Ottawa and Queen’s Park, but flows through city hall’s housing […]
Allegations, questions swirl around agency that ran homeless shelter
When The London Free Press began asking questions in February about the change in management of a winter homeless shelter, city hall manager Kevin Dickins emailed his colleagues
Homeless advocates’ message to city: Let’s work together to help people
London’s homeless people aren’t like daffodils that simply reappear when the weather warms ups, a group of frustrated health care and outreach workers said Thursday. But it’s time to stop arguing with city hall about numbers and start working together on human beings, they said, extending an invitation to other organizations and the city to […]
Western University study analyzes COVID vaccination rate among homeless
COVID-19 vaccine uptake is higher among homeless people with access to primary care and community clinics, Western University researchers say in a new Ontario study quantifying the lagging immunization rate in the vulnerable population.
Funding ends for service that helps vulnerable Londoners stay housed
A homeless prevention service that has helped hundreds of Londoners living in cluttered or squalid conditions keep their homes is losing its funding at the end of the month.
City hall to Queen’s Park as homeless programs in peril: Where’s the money?
A political war of words is unfolding around the looming shutdown of a dozen homelessness and housing programs in London. Organizations need an 11th-hour extension from the federal and provincial governments to keep paying for programs that help tackle “huge societal problems” like homelessness and lack of housing exacerbated by the pandemic, one city councillor […]
London’s temporary winter shelters won’t be rebuilt next year: City hall
The temporary winter shelters created in London the last two years are unlikely to be rebuilt next year, city hall says. As a pop-up site at the Fanshawe golf course prepares to close next week, with 18 people housed or moving in shortly, there is no money – or plan – to continue the effort in […]
London homeless programs in peril as Ontario, federal funding runs out
Hundreds of Londoners could be turned out onto the street or sent back to emergency shelters as federal and provincial COVID-19 funding that shored up dozens of homeless programs expires soon.
Small town opens shelter as rural homelessness concerns deepen
An Elgin County housing coalition is preparing to open the area’s first emergency homeless shelter, a sign of deepening rural homelessness. The Homelessness Coalition of West Elgin and Dutton Dunwich — home to a combined population of nearly 9,000 — is set to open the emergency shelter at St. Mary Parish in West Lorne on Friday night. “I’m so happy […]