Calgary charity looking for temporary homes for people fleeing Ukraine after massive influx – Calgary | 24CA News

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Published 29.03.2023
Calgary charity looking for temporary homes for people fleeing Ukraine after massive influx – Calgary | 24CA News

A Calgary charity says it has discovered a short lived repair to a severe housing scarcity an inflow of Ukrainian evacuees has prompted.

The Centre for Newcomers is looking for 100 hosts for households or people for a month whereas they discover housing of their very own.

Kelly Ernst, with the centre, says there was a flood of Ukrainians making an attempt to make the most of a federal program permitting them to quickly resettle in Canada.

The program has been prolonged till July and Ernst says he expects individuals will proceed to flee the war-torn nation till then.

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Ernst says lots of the refugees could have landed in different elements of the nation, however rents in Calgary are decrease than bigger centres like Vancouver and Toronto.

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He says some individuals have been sleeping on the airport and in no less than one case have been at an area homeless shelter.

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