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The agreement has been signed and the initiative to tackle Yellowknife’s homeless is off and running. So what’s the next step? Collecting donations from a sea can in the 50/50 lot, argue some

With the signing of an $834,000 contract the week before last, Yellowknife’s much-anticipated and much-delayed Housing First project is finally underway. The Yellowknife Women’s Society — the sole organization to bid on the City-facilitated, federally funded initiative — has begun hiring staff and securing accommodation, with the plan of housing the first four people by

As the City mulls over a proposal to provide Housing First to adults, youth-focused SideDoor Ministries, which runs both the Side Door and Hope’s Haven, have announced they’ll be starting their own Housing First program. “Youth have identified what they need in order to end their homelessness, so we want to respond to that,” says

The idea of building a temporary work camp in Yellowknife may not be as dead as City Council’s surprising ‘No’ vote two weeks ago suggested. This coming Monday, construction company Clark Builders, half of the consortium building the new hospital, is scheduled to give a presentation “regarding a Temporary Work Camp” to council in a

Two weeks after City Council nixed the idea of putting parking spots across from The Woodyard, questions about congestion in Old Town were back on the agenda. When the decision was made not to add 13 angled parking spots along the Old Town portion of Franklin Ave., the hope was to funnel traffic to the

As bidding on a RFP to run the City’s Housing First Program closed on Monday, the Yellowknife Women’s Society was the sole organization to submit a proposal. Details of the proposal aren’t public, and EDGE was unable to reach Bree Denning, executive director of the society (which also runs the Centre of Northern Families) by

In a bombshell vote last night, City Council refused to allow the development of a large temporary camp in Kam Lake meant to house workers building the new Stanton Hospital. The plan, officially presented to council only hours before by the hospital’s general contractors, had been to build temporary dwellings for between 150 and 250

Despite efforts from the various parties attempting to house Yellowknife’s homeless population, a chasm has emerged between the GNWT and the City that could derail the much-anticipated Housing First initiative. On one side, the City-backed Community Advisory Board on Homelessness (CAB) is pushing forward with its plan to house people in private apartments around the

Yellowknife’s bid to host the 2023 Canada Winter Games effectively died this afternoon, following a unanimous rejection by City Council. The final vote won’t happen until next Monday, but during today’s Municipal Services Committee meeting, all eight councillors indicated they would oppose the bid, citing uncalculated risks, tough economic times, the inability to host alpine

Yellowknife’s much-discussed Housing First program is expected to get underway by mid-summer, says Coun. Linda Bussey, who chairs the Community Advisory Board on Homelessness. With any luck, one person will be housed in July or August. After that the CAB hopes to find additional housing for two people each month, building towards the goal of