The City of Windsor is making record investments into revamping its affordable housing stock and creating new spaces, but there are calls for more focus and funding from upper levels of government for wrap-around support services.
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WINDSOR, ONT. The City of Windsor will be creating a new homeless and housing hub after council unanimously supported the vision at a special meeting of council Monday. The city has been operating a hub model at Windsor Water World during the pandemic and learned some troubling statistics about the homeless population in Windsor 350 people have been identified as chronically homeless. “Our goal in the community is to make homelessness as infrequent and as short term as possible,” said Jennifer Tanner, the city’s manager of housing and homelessness. Council has delegated authority for the city to begin consultations and planning for a 60-bed emergency shelter, which would be augmented with other supports for diversion and mediation, outreach supports, healthcare and mental health practitioners as well as addiction counselling.