Opening of Charlottetown’s emergency shelter units delayed again
The in a single day modular shelter items on Park Avenue in Charlottetown for folks experiencing homelessness is not going to be opening Wednesday as initially hoped, in keeping with officers with P.E.I.’s Division of Social Growth and Housing.
The minister was not made accessible for remark, however the division mentioned the venture is within the closing levels of building and can be opening shortly.
Karla Bernard, Inexperienced MLA and Opposition critic for Social Growth and Housing, mentioned there’s “no clear thought” from her understanding on when the power will open.
“I’ve heard rumblings, however I have not heard something official on when it is going to open,” she mentioned. “Given the temperature is dropping each day, it is actually past crunch time.”
P.E.I. Housing Minister Matthew MacKay initially mentioned the modular items could be prepared by mid-November to get folks off the streets by the point chilly climate arrived.
He later modified that timeline to the end of this month.
Shelter open 8 p.m. to eight a.m.
The items have been moved onto the location weeks in the past. Some folks experiencing homelessness in Charlottetown have been dwelling in tent encampments.
“It is one thing that is simply been kicked down the highway so lengthy,” Bernard mentioned. “That is one thing that individuals have been annoyed with proper from the beginning.
The non permanent housing can be open from 8 p.m. to eight a.m. It can shelter as much as 51 folks in a number of modular items, every of which has one or two dorm-style bedrooms and a shared lavatory and bathe.
The minister mentioned beforehand that the aim is to have a 24/7 shelter before next winter. The Greens say that is too lengthy, and that the Park Avenue shelter alone has many points round accessibility and mobility, hours and extra.
“Who is that this shelter service for? Definitely not for the people who find themselves going to entry it, as a result of if it have been for them they might have been requested what they needed,” Bernard mentioned.
