Surviving Edmonton: Social agencies and government explore challenges facing unhoused people
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Following a 30-minute special tracking unhoused people in Edmonton for 1 year, Global News explores possible solutions with social service agencies and Alberta's government.
A recent documentary has experts sharing potential solutions about how to help people experiencing homelessness in Edmonton.
Global News Investigates: Surviving Edmonton provided a deeply personal look into the lives of unhoused people in Alberta’s capital.
Four people welcomed our team to document their search for stability and housing.
That included Edmonton couple, Troy Cardinal and Leanne Wuttunee.
During the course of filming, the Global News crew lost track of Cardinal and Wuttunee.
Three days before Surviving Edmonton aired, the couple surfaced.
The pair had stayed for three months at the site of the former Sands Inn and Suites. The Indigenous-led shelter spaces are meant to help people get on track to permanent housing.
Cardinal and Wuttunee said they didn’t want to follow the program requirements. They also couldn’t stay together in the units as a couple.
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