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THUNDER BAY — A suggestion that the city and social agencies establish and monitor new homeless encampments has drawn a cautiously positive response from Elevate NWO, an agency that's provided outreach services to individuals living in tents.
In her note to council, Lester said Current River Park has a washroom facility on site, is located across Cumberland Street from the Salvation Army building, and is down the street from the Elevate NWO offices. "Also, by concentrating the encampments in one or two areas it would make monitoring the encampments with social workers, housing and mental health workers easier," she wrote.
"One of them is the proposed locations. People were camped at those sites last year, and we received lots of citizen complaints about them too. Wherever we land, it's going to be somebody's back yard...I would hate to go and put all my eggs in this particular basket, go down the road of planning to be at one of these locations, only to have it withdrawn at the eleventh hour because another citizens' group comes forward and says this isn't going to work.
Assuming that people were amenable to living in the camps, Gauvin said she feels it would be necessary to provide them with some form of transportation. Foulds said he's unsure if a supervised camping area is a best practice, but he's open-minded to any solution.
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