Home Suite Hope

We have spoken with Wendy Perkins, Exec Director at Home Suite Hope about our efforts to arrange housing for homeless in Milton. She is supportive of our initiatives and informed us of upcoming ACT committee meeting, made up of about 70 people. She will talk to the chair of the group with the objective of inviting us to attend.

5th wheel

We had met with the owners of the 5th wheel in Milton in order to see if we could pay for transitional housing shelter at their motel based on a similar experience by another group in Burlington. Unfortunately, the owners are not keen given previous experience with homeless. There are no cooking in the rooms and the largest room is 2double beds. So we are now looking at other solutions.

Mattresses

I have four pressure relieving mattresses which I have obtained from work at no charge. they would be ideal for a homeless shelter but I have no homeless shelter in which to use them given the problems with zoning bylaws in Milton. I need a home for these mattresses. They are new or ex-demo 80"x36"x5".

Home Suite Hope

homesuitehope.org
This is a charity in Oakville which operates housing for the homeless. It has been operating for 5 years. There is a “huge” supporting committee. They have an 6-plex apartment building ($600,000 with a mortgage) and a 4 br townhouse ($250,000) which they own, and a house which has been donated for a2-year period. All are full. The apartment building required some renovations. Furnishings were by donations. Funding is by fundraising and support from Maycourt Club of Oakville, Halton Region and others.

There is a “Faith Community Moving To Action” a multi-faith group in Oakville, which has recently had a meeting on this topic and plans another on Nov 26.

There is no such facility in Milton. They recognize a great need for one here.
We hope they would partner with us to advance our program. They appear very supportive to the idea and suggested we talk about getting together as well as attending the Nov 26 meeting.