Unhoused people in Kingston, Ont., struggle against viciously cold weather
The city says it can’t continue to fund the programs such as the Integrated Care Hub alone, and has been pressing the provincial government to step in to help.
An encampment of 50 or more people in the area surrounding the Integrated Care Hub on Montreal Street has been given a deadline of March 20, the first day of Spring. After that, the city says they’ll need to pack up and find somewhere else, citing the fact that the encampment is on or beside a large portion of the publicly used K&P Trail.Organizations like Home Base Housing, Our Livable Solutions, the Integrated Care Hub and others say they’ve been working double time during the pandemic to aid the ever growing fight to help Kingston’s unhoused.
With the cold snap coming to a head, it’s expected to get worse before it gets better, with Environment Canada predicting temperatures to drop as low as -27C Friday evening before it begins to ease.
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