Developmentally disabled Londoner faces imminent return to homelessness
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A desperate search is on to help a man with a developmental disability find supportive housing. 'It was scary,' recalled Shawn Mitchell, a 25-year-old Londoner who had to sleep in a park earlier this spring. 'I woke up one morning and I was soaking wet. Everything I had was soaking wet.'
A desperate search is on to help a man with a developmental disability find supportive housing.
“It was scary,” recalled Shawn Mitchell, a 25-year-old Londoner who had to sleep in a park earlier this spring. “I woke up one morning and I was soaking wet. Everything I had was soaking wet. Soaking wet from the rain.”
With nowhere to turn, Mitchell contacted a former neighbour asking for a tent.
Instead, Jason Hastings offer him a bedroom.
“I know him from when he was a kid, and he’s still that same kid,” Hastings explained, his voice cracking as he held back tears. “It wasn’t right to leave him where he was.”
A plan to stay for a few nights until supporting housing could be secured has extended to eight weeks.
Now Hastings and his family are about to move out of London, Ont., unable to find a place for Mitchell to stay.