Tag: homelessness
Letters to the Editor: December 20, 2023
Give, if you can
Letters to the Editor: December 14, 2023
Public exposure
Homelessness, poverty top concern by far of Londoners: Survey
Ahead of a tough budget cycle coming at London city hall, a new survey of Londoners suggests the homeless crisis dwarfs all other issues and many would rather see taxes hiked than services cut. City council’s strategic priorities and policy committee will receive the city’s draft 2024-27 budget at a meeting early next week. Budget […]
Asylum seekers adding pressure to London shelters, aid needed: Politicians
One city councillor, with the support of London’s mayor, is looking for their colleagues’ political support to lobby the provincial and federal governments for funding to address an influx of asylum seekers. A motion from Ward 7 Coun. Corrine Rahman and Mayor Josh Morgan goes into detail describing the pressure on the city’s emergency shelter […]
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 […]
Letters to the Editor: November 4, 2023
Investment in peril
A nearly $1.7 million ask from downtown businesses for city money to cope with homelessness may get some tough questions from city politicians, said deputy mayor Shawn Le
A recommendation for the city to give $1.7 million to businesses in downtown London and Old East Village to cope with homelessness may get some tough questions from city politicians, London’s deputy mayor says. If the London downtown business association and Old East Village business improvement area (BIA) get cash, the Argyle and Hamilton Road […]
St. Thomas forum puts faces to homelessness
Why give pocket change to someone living on the street, if they’re only going to spend it on drugs or alcohol? Answer: Because for whatever they need in the moment, it just might provide some temporary relief.
Homelessness, hope and a platform to share stories about ‘losing it all’
Homeless for five years, and addicted to drugs three times that long, Bobby Wiens knows how people living on the street are looked down upon.
Canada Life president on helming London’s homeless fundraising team
As head of one of Canada’s largest companies, Jeff Macoun works in the same corner office in downtown London that his predecessors have used since 1927.