Vancouver opens more shelters as overnight temperatures drop

The City of Vancouver is encouraging unhoused individuals to utilize available shelter spaces due to anticipated drops in overnight temperatures in the coming days.

The city says additional shelter spaces will be open from Friday night through Monday in response to the declared “extreme weather alert.”

Alerts are typically issued when temperatures are expected to feel like or fall below 0°C during these nights.

Additional shelters will be accessible at:

• Directions Youth Services Centre: 1138 Burrard Street. Phone: 604-633-1472 ext. 1
• Aboriginal Front Door: 390 Main Street. Phone: 604-428-1908
• The Salvation Army Belkin House: 555 Homer Street. Phone: 604-681-3405
• Covenant House: 1280 Seymour Street. Phone: 604-685-7474
• The Nest: 320 Alexander Street. Phone: 236-235-1434
• Marpole Neighbourhood House EWR Shelter: 8585 Hudson Street. Phone: 604-317-4307
• Kiwassa Neighbourhood House EWR Shelter: 2425 Oxford Street. Phone: 778-792-3276
• Commercial/Hastings EWR: 1726 East Hastings Street. Phone: 236-877-6311
• Burrard Street EWR: 1430 Burrard Street. Phone: 778-231-1430

Temperatures are forecast to hover around the freezing mark for the next several days in Vancouver.

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