Journey Home

• Kelowna sets goal to combat homelessness by end of 2025

  Kelowna has built 318 supportive housing units since 2017, but the city wants to do more — and possibly eradicate homelessness by the end of 2025.

  Canada

  May 10, 2022
  
• Kelowna’s newest supportive housing unit set to open its doors

  "It's everything it's the place that you have to start, it's having a door to lock at night, it's having your own bathroom it's having your own space," said Mike Gawliuk of CMHA Kelowna.

  Canada

  Oct 29, 2020
  
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• Outdoor overnight shelter site in Kelowna relocated

  The City of Kelowna has found a new temporary overnight shelter location at 890 Baillie Ave., allowing for the relocation of the site on Recreation Avenue.

  Canada

  Sep 23, 2020
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• Central Okanagan Journey Home Society announces new executive director

  The society says its new leader is a seasoned executive who has more than 26 years of experience in the human services sector.

  Dec 14, 2019
• Journey Home explains difference between emergency shelters and support housing

  The Journey Home program says while they may appear to be similar, they aren’t the same and that communities need both of them.

  Dec 11, 2019
• New cold-weather shelter to open in Kelowna at former food bank site on Ellis Street

  Dubbed ‘Welcome Inn,’ the site is expected to open in late December or early January.

  Dec 10, 2019
• Controversial Kelowna housing project pledges to be drug-free: City

  "Every apartment building in the city is a wet facility," councilor Gail Given stated, soliciting a sea of groans from the public gallery. 

  Politics

  Jul 17, 2019
• Okanagan residents given small taste of life on the street

  It's a simulator initiative that aims to realistically highlight some of the challenges homeless people in Kelowna face every day.

  News

  May 28, 2019
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• Kelowna council sends controversial homeless housing project to public hearing

  A rezoning application for the supportive housing complex on Agassiz Road is expected to go before Kelowna city council Monday afternoon.

  News

  Nov 26, 2018
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• Kelowna’s newest supportive housing complex about to welcome homeless tenants

  After six months of construction, the Hearthstone supportive housing complex in Kelowna is about to open its doors. Fifty-one homeless people will start moving into the 46-unit modular building on Commerce Street, off Enterprise, next week.

  News

  Oct 31, 2018