Don Iveson has written a letter to Premier Jason Kenney asking for an annual funding commitment to provide wrap-around support services for Edmonton’s most vulnerable.Earlier this week, Iveson announced the city plans to use $8 million from Edmonton’s share of federal restart funding to open and run a new centre to support homeless and vulnerable people by the end of the month.The 24/7 relief space will use a city-owned facility to bring people off the streets and out of the encampments that have been set up in the city in recent months.
The accommodations are meant to be temporary as the city works to open more bridge housing and longer-term options for the city’s homeless.In a letter dated Wednesday, Iveson asked Kenney to commit $17.4.