'I’m not going to be homeless': Motel tenants won’t be evicted after homeless hub plan cancelled
CTV
Linda Boxall was crying tears of joy after finding out she’ll be able to stay in her motel in London, Ont.’s north end. Living as a permanent tenant at the Lighthouse Inn for five years, Boxall was worried she’d be evicted when the city planned to turn the inn into a hub for the homeless.
Linda Boxall was crying tears of joy after finding out she’ll be able to stay in her motel in London, Ont.’s north end.
Living as a permanent tenant at the Lighthouse Inn for five years, Boxall was worried she’d be evicted when the city and the Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley (CMHATV) planned to turn the inn into a hub for the homeless.
“Never give up hope,” Boxall told CTV News London from her room at 705 Fanshawe Park Rd. W. “Keep fighting, that’s my story. I have a home and I’m not going to be homeless.”
Boxall has been rallying her fellow tenants since the proposal came forward to convert the inn to one of the new hubs.
Some of them even attended city council meetings in the gallery to voice their displeasure.
On Monday however, the CMHATV revealed in a news release they were cancelling the plan citing “circumstances beyond (its) control.”
They also announced that the proposed hub at My Sisters’ Place on Dundas Street is also axed.
