Tag: Homeless
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 […]