Nearly one month after declaring homelessness an emergency, Edmonton city councillors have been presented with four dozen potential solutions.
In a report delivered to a special council meeting Monday, City of Edmonton administration outlined the actions.
City manager Andre Corbould told councillors funds could be taken from the operating budget, contingency funding, dividends or review all recent funding decisions and see what money could be reallocated.
“The declaration of council’s emergency, in my mind, changed the context of all funding decisions,” Corbould said when explaining the ideas.
Councillors, however, did not seem keen to take those actions.
Other options include identifying surplus school sites that are not immediately needed and providing them to organizations to build housing on.
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Councillor Tim Cartmell expressed frustration that hasn’t been done already, as many of the sites are already serviced.
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