Exclusive: Anonymous $25M donor speaks about homelessness plan
Their desire to help and remain anonymous has roots in their upbringing in separate Southwestern Ontario towns.Article contentA roof over their head, for sure, family and food and school. That’s about it. There were no expensive vacations, no large inheritances, no resort homes in other countries, no glamourous homes in this country.
You would read the combined energy and courtesy as a leader, that he never raised his voice to employees and knew all their names. “My wife has no fear. She is a modest and shy individual, but she can talk to people. She will stop the car and get out with gift cards and cash. She tries to figure out a way she can help people out on a one-to-one basis.”“People are desperate. They approach you. Other people get accosted, are threatened and challenged. It’s not the old downtown. And if you’re challenged, you go somewhere else. We want to take the somewhere else back to downtown. We want to change downtown back the way it was.
About the same time he and his wife were thinking something different had to be done, leaders in London’s municipal government, health care institutions and social service organizations were thinking the same.during the winter that attracted more than 200 participants from 80 different organizations and businesses. Those summits led to what’s being billed as the whole-of-community response to homelessness, not a project or a plan, proponents say, but a whole new system.
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