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Vancouver reports steady homeless outreach activity, shelters to open Nov. 1; city highlights Safe Stay housing outcomes
Summary
Homeless response manager Jamie Spinelli told the Vancouver City Council on Oct. 20 that winter shelters will open Nov. 1, that the city has removed more than 235 tons of encampment debris year-to-date, and that recent Safe Stay activity produced several housing placements and social-services connections.
Jamie Spinelli, the city's homeless response manager, presented the September homelessness situation report to the Vancouver City Council on Oct. 20.
Spinelli said the city has recorded 26 deaths among people experiencing homelessness since mid-December, including three in September, and that planning is under way for a memorial in mid-December. Winter shelters will open community-wide on Nov. 1. Spinelli reported that city-operated large cleanups removed 11 tons in the last month and the rapid-response crew removed nearly 10 tons; year-to-date tonnage across cleanups is a little over 235 tons. "Most of that tonnage is…
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