Here's How London's First Indigenous-Led Winter Shelter Site Will Work
Trailers to house Indigenous people experiencing homelessness have started to arrive at the River Road Golf Course on the outskirts of London, Ont. as organizers prepare the site for a first-of-its-kind approach this winter.
Atlohsa Family Healing Services, an Indigenous non-profit, will run the proposed shelter system that could house as many as 30 people in private rooms in retrofitted trailers with the aim of providing them a "connection back to the land".
London's City council still needs to green light the public golf course site which is part of a larger winter homelessness response program. It's also looking at the Fanshawe Golf Course on the outskirts of east London to accommodate three dozen non-Indigenous people in retrofit trailers.
