'If you look at the fundamentals of human development, what we need first and foremost is housing. Housing, food, love.'
She pulled her head back into the truck -- the local Salvation Army’s Emergency Disaster Relief Vehicle -- and began gathering up bags of ham sandwiches, juices and snacks to hand out to them. They’re homeless and they sometimes get extra, said Hamel, who is a community outreach worker with the church.
There is evidence of people living in the woods along the trails in some areas: rumpled tarps, empty food and beer boxes and snuffed-out fire pits. There are more and more young men living among them, and they're more aggressive, Kean said. They steal from local stores, they run into the roads and they break into people's houses, he said.
"A majority of who and what we see causing a concern for us from a public safety perspective are not homeless," he said."They are folks that have come into our community for a brief period, to come to a hospital appointment, whatever, and they've decided to stay." Matthews is the coordinator at the town's Housing Hub, a low-barrier shelter managed by the Nunatsiavut government, which is the Inuit government in northern Labrador. The Hub can accommodate around 10 people, Matthews said. If there are more, the Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation will put them up at the nearby Labrador Inn.
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