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May 22, 2024 · The original strategy helped reduce homelessness by nearly half, a city report shows. The plan was updated in 2017 and since then, the city and agencies helped develop 644 units of supportive...
Feb 8, 2023 · At a time when the Alberta health-care system is overwhelmed, a new report suggests those experiencing homelessness in Edmonton are at greater risk of facing physical and mental-health...
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Dec 13, 2022 · Task force launched to address Edmonton’s social issues, addictions, homelessness. By Karen Bartko Global News. Posted December 13, 2022 7:12 pm. Updated December 13, 2022 9:03 pm. 8...
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Mar 19, 2024 · A recent documentary has experts sharing potential solutions about how to help people experiencing homelessness in Edmonton. Global News Investigates: Surviving Edmonton provided a deeply...
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- Changing Approach to Homelessness
- Winter Shelter Spaces
- Expanding Shelter Services
The announcements stem from recommendations made in a report submitted last summer by the Coordinated Community Response to Homelessness Task Force — a team of bureaucrats, academics and community group members, among others, that the provincial government established in November 2021. The group examined how homelessness is affecting communities th...
The Alberta government will spend $9 million this fiscal year to expand shelter spaces during the wintertime, its action plan says. Edmonton will receive $5 million to create an extra 450 spaces, bringing the available shelter spaces in the city up to about 1,050. Wetaskiwin and Lethbridge will each get $1 million. Wetaskiwin's allotment will creat...
Only four shelters — Hope Mission in Edmonton, Salvation Army-Wagner Centre in Calgary, the Lloydminster Men's Shelter and Mustard Seed Red Deer — that do not operate around the clock will receive operational funding from the provincial government, the plan says. The government will spend $4.5 million this fiscal year so those facilities can provid...
Aug 26, 2021 · (Travis McEwan/CBC) Edmonton is a step closer to adopting a roadmap to improve standards at emergency homeless shelters, after the city's community and public services committee recommended a...
The task force will spend the $63 million the governing UCP has already announced for Edmonton to address addiction, mental health and homelessness. This comes in the light of a double homicide in...
