Yesterday morning Pastor Quinn and I went downtown to share warm clothes and snacks with inner-city folks waiting to enter the Bissell Centre -- only to find police and clean up crews throwing peoples' tent/tarp homes and possessions into garbage trucks yet again. I can't tell you how disheartened the folks there looked. There are no words.
The Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Homelessness recently put together an excellent brochure debunking myths being thrown around when it comes to encampments, and it is important enough to take up a few pages in Inner City Pastoral Ministry's February newsletter.
If you have questions or concerns about encampments and their demolition, please click here to read "Busting the Myths about Campsites" on pages 4 and 5 of the February 2024 issue of Straight from the Street. And if you want to join the crew from ICPM at our Annual General Meeting, there's an invitation in there, too. Would be lovely to see more friends there!
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