It’s been a busy week for Tom Greening, executive director for Home Base Housing. They’ve relocated the organization’s emergency shelter into a retirement home that had closed in the east end of Kingston.
Located on Montreal Street, the In From The Cold Emergency Shelter has multiple bunk beds in the same room. That means physical distancing just wasn’t possible — and it created a real concern if anyone in the vulnerable homeless population were to catch COVID-19.
The former Fairfield Manor East on Maclean Court is ideal alternate location, says Greening. “We have 40 individual rooms, all with their own self-contained washrooms,” he explained, adding they have about 34 of the rooms ready for occupancy. “There are currently 21 people here at