'I have no place to go': 1616 Ouellette residents without shelter speak out
Billie-Jo Steptoe has been living at the John Atkinson Memorial Community Centre since last Wednesday. She says it's been difficult living with more than "100 roommates."
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Billie-Jo Steptoe has been living at the John Atkinson Memorial Community Centre since last Wednesday. She says it's been difficult living with more than "100 roommates."
An emergency shelter for evacuated residents of 1616 Ouellette Avenue is set to close Monday morning. The City of Windsor and Canadian Red Cross opened the emergency shelter on Nov. 22, after evacuating the 120-unit residential building because of unsafe living conditions. 'I have nowhere to go,' resident Jerrod Lefler told CTV News Windsor.
The City of Windsor and the Red Cross set up an emergency shelter Tuesday for residents of 1616 Ouellette Ave. after officials ordered that the apartment building be evacuated for safety reasons.