Ottawa’s homeless shelters are struggling to keep up with demand as the rise of newcomers puts pressure on the already overburdened system.
The Ottawa Mission is seeing many newcomers looking for shelter and they now account for nearly 40 per cent of its clients, according to its CEO
“We’re easily at about 115 to 120 per cent [capacity] per night, and those people have to be fed three meals a day,” said Peter Tilley.
“Don’t forget, we’re also turning away another 60 to 70 people per night who when they arrive, half of whom are newcomers,”
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Ottawa’s homeless shelters are struggling to keep up with demand as the rise of newcomers puts pressure on the already overburdened system.
The city partially funds The Ottawa Mission, the Salvation Army’s Booth Centre, Cornerstone Housing for Women and Shepherds of Good Hope.
City housing director Paul Lavigne shared three years of data on city-funded shelter spaces confirming an increase in the number of newcomers using the system.
Clayton Eng, a homeless man from Hawkesbury, Ont., has been staying at Shepherds of Good Hope’s emergency shelter for three weeks.
Sutcliffe is calling on the federal government to fund housing for asylum seekers in Ottawa, noting that the majority of people in the shelter system are newcomers to Canada.
The city provided Tilley’s shelter with one extra support worker to help newcomers amid the current crisis.
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