City council has forbidden the use of new federal funding to operate resting spaces for homeless Londoners if they’re located on the main street of a Business Improvement Area (BIA).
The decision has potentially put 30 overnight beds in jeopardy.
On Thursday, CTV News spoke with 42-year-old Jess, who visits Ark Aid Street Mission on Dundas Street each morning to get her name on a list for one of those resting spaces.
“I really like it here,” she said while clutching a stuffed animal close to her face,” I… I have nowhere else to go.”
She began to sob.
Earlier this week a motion by Councillor Susan Stevenson was supported by the majority of council that any new resting spaces receiving funds from the upcoming $250 million federal encampment program, “not be located on the main street of any Business Improvement Area (BIA).”
A statement from Civic Administration reads, “This would include daytime and …