Vancouver shelters are at capacity due to cold weather

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Vancouver shelters have been at capacity, thanks to this freezing weather.

“Our shelter’s been full on really cold nights. We’ve actually opened our emergency weather shelter already. We’ve got pretty thick camping mats and we’ve got some sleeping bags and hook people up in there. I think we started with 10, and then we had 18 and then we had 20 people,” says Bruce Curtiss of the Union Gospel Mission.

He says other shelters are in the same situation.

For a variety of reasons, many of the homeless don’t come to shelters even when it’s cold, so the UGM sends teams out to provide food and blankets to people living in parks.

The centre is always looking for toques, gloves, and thick socks to give out. The mission uses monetary donations to buy tarp blankets for the homeless.

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