Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There's actually a few things that we're doing to reduce the shelter bed nights, the amount of people that are staying in the shelters within the Yellowknife community. For one, we are working with the City of Yellowknife with their Housing First Project. We're also working with the shelters to implement a Housing First project within their own so that they can move some of the people that are in their units into more of an independent living structure. Finally, we are working within the communities as well to implement emergency shelters within the community-- three identified this year, so that they will have options and they don't have to migrate to Yellowknife simply because they have no place to live. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Caroline Cochrane on Question 190-18(2): Reducing The Need For Emergency Shelter Services
In the Legislative Assembly on June 8th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 190-18(2): Reducing The Need For Emergency Shelter Services
Oral Questions
June 7th, 2016
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