London homeless

A memorial was held Monday to mark one year since a woman was killed in an encampment fire in London's Old East Village as mourners called for improved services to help those living on the streets.

Canada Life is making a $500,000 donation to combat London’s homelessness crisis. The London-based insurer, IG Wealth Management and Power Corporation of Canada made the donation to the Fund for Change, the fundraising committee headed by Jeff Macoun, the former president of the insurance, wealth management and health benefits company

Research too costly

City politicians have endorsed a framework for highly supportive housing to ease the homelessness crisis and a plan to evaluate a new homelessness system built largely on that housing.

How well are London's homelessness efforts working?

Kudos deserved

London councillors endorsed giving two agencies $269,000 so they can extend winter programs to help the homeless by two months

A skirmish is brewing over funding for a homelessness drop-in service.

Stop-gap funding could be heading to two homelessness organizations facing cuts in March, but they and several others will have the same problems come June.

The first three months of new housing for the most vulnerable homeless Londoners have delivered "life-changing" results, the head of London Cares says. Read More

A new partnership between the region’s largest hospital and a front-line health care agency is bringing prenatal care to the city’s homeless population, vital medical care previously out-of-reach for many of London’s most marginalized. Read More

A city council committee has unanimously endorsed a proposal to provide quarterly updates with statistics on London's homeless population that city staff say could exceed 2,000 people. Read More