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FACE IT: Shelter, Part 3 – The Possible Solutions

This series about housing is the second of three, following by a series on jobs, then one on street-level drug addiction and mental health. We’ll explore how perilously interconnected they are for a person – and a city – in their grip.

Roadwork mega-projects. Loss of street parking to bike lanes. Homelessness and drug addiction at their door. A tempest of devastation is hammering downtown London businesses. Time alone won’t end it. Norman De Bono reports.

The waiting list for affordable housing in London just got a little shorter.

Thanks to Indwell, a Hamilton-based affordable housing agency, 67 people struggling with mental health issues, homelessness or a disability will move into ready-made, one-bedroom downtown apartments Monday.

Indwell,an affordable housing agency, is getting ready to start renting units in one downtown London building as it prepares to break ground on another. Indwell …