Tag: Homeless
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 […]
Amid deep freeze, homeless Londoners left to seek shelter on city bus
Eighteen homeless people had to spend Thursday night in a city bus as cold weather sharpened the focus on London’s entrenched poverty. The 40-bed winter response shelter at First-St. Andrew’s United Church at 350 Queens Ave. has been full and trying to find other places for a handful of people each night since opening in […]
‘Miraculous’: Woman escapes injury after being dumped into garbage truck
A woman who was accidentally dumped into the back of a garbage truck in Sarnia “miraculously” survived the incident without any injuries, Sarnia police said Monday.