Article content âYouâre planning to utilize a world-class training facility to house this?â the email asked. âThisâ refers to homeless people. No one will want to use the aquatic centre after âtheyâ have been in there, a caller said, referring to, you know, homeless people. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Jarvis: Swimming versus housing the homeless â time for a gut check Back to video âI shudder to think how expensive it will be to disinfect and repair our facility once this is over,â someone wrote on Facebook. This is some of the blowback that Mayor Drew Dilkens and the city are fielding after announcing that the aquatic centre is being converted into a temporary emergency shelter for homeless people because the Downtown Mission is closed due to a COVID-19 outbreak.