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The Alberta government's navigation and support centre for people experiencing homelessness will become a permanent fixture in Edmonton as the number of deaths in the city's homeless population spikes.

Residents of the Elmwood Park neighbourhood attended a public meeting on Tuesday evening to voice their concerns about an emergency shelter and housing space in their area.

When the city of Edmonton experiences a cold stretch, some of the homeless population will have a warm place t...

While temperatures drop and the City of Edmonton clears homeless encampments, 50 new emergency shelter spaces are opening in trailers in the city's northeast, thanks to new funding from the Government of Alberta.

As the cold sets in in Edmonton, some of the citys homeless residents will soon have a warm place to sleep and three meals a day.

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Several dozen apartment units in two new supportive housing complexes remain vacant, while a local housing agency figures out how to run them without extra funds.

The city of Edmonton welcomes the federal government’s pledge of $1.5 billion for housing projects outlined in the federal budget, although it’s not known how much the Alberta capital city will receive. 

The fate of more than 300 Edmonton apartments for people transitioning from chronic homelessness is in limbo since the Alberta government didn’t include money in its recent budget to run new permanent support housing projects.

By WXTK News May 17, 2021 More damage has been done to the West Yarmouth hotel which was hit by a tornado in 2019.  A car crashed into the Sands Inn overnight Saturday.  People inside the vehicle were hospitalized, but not the family that was staying in the room.  However, the father, Derek Cerqueira, told WHDH-TV in Boston he thinks theyre done vacationing on the Cape after this latest incident.  Last year, Cerqueira said the familys car was totaled by a local drunk driver.