Kelowna's working poor pushing into homeless shelters

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I hope news about the Canadian working poor is permitted in this group?

June 02, 2016 - 6:30 PM

NON-TRADITIONAL CLIENTS SHOWING UP IN INCREASING NUMBERS

KELOWNA - The rental housing shortage that’s plaguing the city is starting to spill over into local homeless shelters, operators say, with people they might not normally see showing up at their doors.

“It’s really getting to the point where people have no place to go,” NOW Canada executive director Liz Talbot says. “It’s getting more and more challenging to get people in any form of housing.”

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“The percentage of housing available for rent is one thing, the percentage of low-income housing that’s available is another thing all together."

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“We have a bunch of people right now who actually hold full-time jobs but they either can’t afford housing or it’s simply not available,” Moffat says. “They are absolutely at a disadvantage trying to find housing when they don’t have a lot of money to begin with.”

Link: http://infotel.ca/newsitem/rental-shortage-kelownas-working-poor-pushing-into-homeless-shelters/it31264

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