The provincially funded extreme weather shelter program runs from November to March, but a call-out from the district asking potential partners to participate this year’s program has so far gone unanswered.
The Comox Valley visitor centre could be converted into an extreme weather shelter site this winter due to a lack of suitable locations in the region’s urban areas.
Extreme weather shelters are opened in the winter when a local community declares an alert, under the Assistance to Shelter Act, that sleeping outside could threaten health and safety. “Here we have an individual — who is somebody’s family member, somebody’s friend — who is really on hard times and was trying to find a place to stay warm and dry,” Wells said. “As we move into our winter months, those are two things that are becoming more and more difficult.”
The 2023 Comox Valley point-in-time count, which aims to provide a snapshot of the minimum number of people who are homeless in the community over one 24-hour period, identified 272 people sheltering on the streets, a number that has more than doubled since the start of the pandemic.
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