It’s the time of year when the temperatures can significantly impact those living on the streets and the Executive Director of Ask Wellness says people just don’t have options for where to go.

One of the major problems is a lack of affordable housing. Bob Hughes says they simply can’t keep up with the demand. “It’s every community really that is just struggling with the affordable housing crisis that’s been long in the making and one that it seams even if we were building at a rate that’s been unprecedented in the last number of years there are still hundreds of folks that are in need of housing.”

Hughes says the public are clearly getting frustrated with it as well. “People that are set up on the riverbanks and in some cases right on the streets of our city with nowhere to go. And this is at a time when we’ve seen investments from the province and commitments from the city of Kamloops.” Hughes says the opening of the 42 unit Spero-House on Tranquille earlier this year has helped, but it isn’t enough. “To back in November of 2018, the 55 unit workforce camp which looks like an aircraft, but it houses 55 people. We’ve go the branch open. And so it just seems we continue to be drowning in people that are in desperate need of housing.”