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.
Neighbours of Windsor Water World welcome proposal to move homelessness hub
A proposal to find a permanent home for the Housing, Homelessness and health hub goes to council Monday and neighbours of Windsor Water World are happy the temporary services hub would go.
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A âfrustratedâ Ward 3 Coun. Rino Bortolin said the cityâs financial commitment to pay the university for public use of its new pool will almost completely drain a $3.3-million account he claims was established for that downtown project.
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âItâs needed there more than anywhere else,â said Bortolin, referring back to 2011 when the council of the day voted to close the College Avenue Community Centre and the pools at Water World and Adie Knox to help offset operating costs of a new downtown aquatic centre.