Those sites, Greg Seraganian with the city’s shelter, support and housing administration division says, will stay in place until council makes good on a promise to open 1,000 new emergency shelter beds. Cellphones were given to 51 Out of the Cold program users to help facilitate communication with researchers and housing workers. The authors stressed a total of 1,260 people used the Out of the Cold program over the previous year, according to the report. There are respondents who have been using this program year-after-year, for more than 20 years,” lead study author Tanzil Islam said. “We sort of thought they were fiercely independent and resisted using shelters and so we assumed they resisted using other services,” Sarty said.

Source: thestar March 27, 2019 22:18 UTC