Pandemic, hot housing market fuel homelessness in rural Elgin County | London Free Press

“I’ve been in the role for three months now, and since coming on, the caseload has doubled,” said Tanya Dale, the centre’s rural homelessness systems navigator, a post created this year to support people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Elgin County outside St.

“Typically, the centre used to have one, maybe two clients,” dealing with homelessness, he said.

In Aylmer, the East Elgin Housing Initiative emergency shelter that runs through the winter housed eight people in its first year between 2019 and 2020, said the report, released last month.

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