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Posted: Mar 03, 2021 9:13 AM ET | Last Updated: March 3 The City of Ottawa pays to house families in these apartments in Vanier when family shelters are overflowing. Many stay months, if not years.(Jean Delisle/CBC) The City of Ottawa will keep using the privately-owned Tabor Apartments in Vanier as emergency shelter space, but will put out a call to see if other landlords or hotels might offer units to help with a big spike in families needing housing. Since 2015, the city has paid Ottawa Inn owner Ahmed Syed to use his building. It pays $89 a night per unit for 15 families at Tabor,...

'We need to move out': Overflow shelter dispute to come before city committee Kate Porter © Jean Delisle/CBC The City of Ottawa pays to house families in these apartments in Vanier when family shelters are overflowing. Many stay months, if not years, and some report living with bedbugs and other vermin — reports the owner denies. The words "Tabor Luxury Apartment" are displayed in silver lettering across the red-brick lowrise tucked deep within Vanier. But that name doesn't tell the whole story of the building at the centre of a controversy coming to this week to city ha...

Article content A choice looms over two council committees, meeting Tuesday, about the future of the city’s relationship with a red-brick apartment complex in Vanier where some of the most vulnerable families in Ottawa have been housed. City politicians face pressure to put an end to staff’s per-diem payments to the Ottawa Inn to shelter homeless people at this property, and not only from the councillors whose proposal to end the arrangement sits on the March 2 meeting agenda. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Should city continue housing ho...

Article content Council’s community and protective services committee is slated to vote Thursday on a move by two councillors to have the city terminate its longstanding and controversial arrangement with a Vanier hotelier to house homeless families in off-site apartments for about $100 per night. Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury and Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney are bringing forward a motion to have the city launch “a proper procurement process” to house the families living at the Tabor apartments, located on Vanier’s St Denis Street, and end its per-diem relationship and use o...