Chilliwack outreach workers concerned about lack of weather shelter beds

Homeless advocates successful the Fraser Valley accidental lives are being enactment astatine hazard by a shortage of utmost upwind shelters arsenic the portion heads into a acold drawback this weekend.

The City of Chilliwack told Global News connected Thursday that it feels similar supportive lodging units are not being placed successful communities successful an equitable manner.

Homeless advocates said determination are astir 5o to 80 radical successful urgent request of structure successful Chilliwack each night.

The politician said determination are presently 36 acold upwind beds disposable astatine 2 locations but admits that is little than what was disposable this clip past year.

“We had a determination successful our downtown core, The United Church, which has present been demolished and it’s going to beryllium redeveloped, but you know, we’re doing what we tin bash with what we’ve got,” Mayor Ken Popove said.

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Jennifer Kennedy, outreach manager for Inclusion Chilliwack Society, told Global News that they are asking for assistance to support radical successful their assemblage safe.

“When it goes beneath zero, folks are going to endure wellness consequences from these very, precise acold temperatures that they are predicting adjacent week,” she said.

Temperatures are expected to scope from lows of -2 C to highs of 4 C implicit the play but could consciousness colder owed to the upwind chill.