The London Home Builders’ Association and the Tricar Group hosted their third annual co-ed charity soccer tournament on Friday at Tricar Field, raising an estimated $72,000 for the Health and Homelessness Fund for Change. Photos by LFP’s Derek Ruttan. druttan@postmedia.com
London will soon be home to 115 new ‘highly supportive” housing apartments targeting people experiencing homelessness.
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There’s no proposed homeless hub for a location on Wellington Road that already has drawn opposition from neighbours over a requested zoning change, city hall and social service leaders say. “It was on our radar because we had partnership conversations with the landlord, but it didn’t get any further because
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A daytime coffee house for homeless Londoners has begun opening at night for up to 15 people at a time to sit, get warm and have some soup and a hot beverage. Read More
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London's city manager will stay on an extra four months as council begins its multi-year budget and the health and homelessness plan continues to roll out Read More
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Linda Boxall said she screamed with excitement when she learned Monday that she wouldn't be forced from the north London motel she's called home for five years by the opening of a homeless hub. Read More
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A plan to put a homeless hub in a motel already housing low-income Londoners has been scrapped, the organization that was to operate the hub announced Monday. Read More
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The one time in the past 10 years Brittany had a home, she turned the apartment unit into a trap house – a place for selling and using drugs and selling sex. Read More
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In an unfortunate paradox, London's groundbreaking plan to tackle its homelessness crisis risks displacing residents of a small inn, who worry they’ll be left homeless themselves. Beatriz Baleeiro reports. Read More
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Another $250,000 in city funding is destined for groups representing businesses dealing with London's homelessness crisis on their doorsteps. Read More
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Two dozen Londoners with years of living homeless will begin moving Thursday into a novel 25-unit affordable housing building that offers much more than nice rooms. Read More
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City council's approval of the first shelter hubs is "a tipping point" for a fundraising campaign hoping to bring another $10 million into the battle against homelessness, the campaign leader says. Read More