Lived experience highlights annual ending homelessness update ceremony
MEDICINE HAT, AB — Medicine Hat’s Community Housing Society (MHCHS) has received recognition from around the world for being the first organization to end homelessness in a North American city, and the group has now provided more than 1,000 people with a place to live.
That was one of the many highlights at the 7th annual ending homelessness update ceremony at the Esplanade Friday, with mayor Ted Clugston proclaiming June 16 “Journey Home Day” in honour of the work done by the MHCHS.
Since April 1, 2009 a total of 777 adults and 317 children that were formerly homeless have been housed according to the progress report handed out before the ceremony.