Residents of the evacuated Hadgraft Wilson Place have been living in Okanagan College's new dorms. They are now slated to leave and many don't know where their next real home is.
Vulnerable residents displaced from a structurally damaged building near downtown Kelowna earlier this year are once again on the move. While most of them have something in place, as Klaudia Van Emmerik reports, for some, the immediate future is looking very uncertain.She tosses and turns, lying awake and wondering if she’s going to get a call saying she will be able to keep a roof over her head.“There are days where I sit here and just want to cry … because I didn’t ask for this,” she said.
For Harrison, who uses a wheelchair due to degenerative disk disease, losing that home was a devastating blow. “I can’t work right now because of my condition in the wheelchair. So until that’s resolved, I am not employable.” “I’ve had to go in and talk to the doctor and such…. There’s other people that have suffered a lot because of heart issues and depression runs rampant in this group of people,” Klassen said.
“It’s been a little tough, because I have a diversability, and so that was my forever home,” Coste said.
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