Portsmouth Harbour sleeping cabin fire victim still searching for a home – Kingston | 24CA News

Former resident of the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour sleeping cabins Joe Biron mentioned he nonetheless loses sleep at night time after a hearth destroyed his tiny house.

The fireplace occurred in early December and destroyed three of the small cabins that home a few of Kingston’s unhoused folks.

Biron and his two canine, Maggie and Oliver, had been capable of escape with out critical damage, however for Biron, the trauma stays.

“Now, that scares me because it’s … on my mind 24 hours a day,” he mentioned.

The fireplace got here simply weeks after Biron broke 4 ribs in a automotive crash and now he has nowhere to go.

Since the fireplace, he’s stayed on the road and at motels earlier than lastly discovering area at Home Base Housing’s In From The Cold shelter, the place he spends his days searching for someplace to reside.

Biron is a pensioner who makes sufficient cash each month to afford someplace secure to reside together with his canine, however Home Base Housing’s Candace O’Neil says his state of affairs is a part of a broader drawback that’s extra sophisticated than simply cash.

“It’s a story that we hear from every community: lack of affordable housing, lack of housing in general, lack of safe housing for individuals,” mentioned O’Neil.

She added that there are a rising variety of people who’ve not less than some sources to pay for an condo however there merely aren’t sufficient reasonably priced areas to go round.

“There are places that are reasonable, but, certainly, that may not be safe,” she mentioned.

Biron mentioned he has issue doing the paperwork obligatory to use for many housing and that he’s continuously in a protracted line of people who find themselves searching for the identical factor.

“We’re asking for help … and support…. That’s all we’re looking for,” mentioned Biron.

Even in his present state of affairs, Biron mentioned he stays hopeful that issues will search for for him and his pups and he’ll discover someplace secure to name house quickly.

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