Skip to content
Join our Newsletter
  1. Home
  2. Courier Archive
  3. Opinion

Homeless shelter beds' cost shocks

To the editor: Re: "Mayor hopes for temporary homeless shelters," Oct. 13. One hundred and 60 beds, for four of five months, at a cost of $2.5 million-that's more than $3,000 per month per bed. It might have been cheaper to give them free apartments.
Vancouver Courier Staff

To the editor:

Re: "Mayor hopes for temporary homeless shelters," Oct. 13.

One hundred and 60 beds, for four of five months, at a cost of $2.5 million-that's more than $3,000 per month per bed. It might have been cheaper to give them free apartments.

John Crombie,

Vancouver