Lois Merritt of Fresh Start Services which assists those are homeless or threatened with it tells CHSJ News they began providing help soon after the fire.
She says on the day of the fire they came in to her office at the Salvation Army building on Prince Edward Street very confused and not sure where they were going to go as the Red Cross had already providing their emergency assistance.
Merritt says the displaced men and women from the Lantern House are paying much higher rent adding there isn't much left over for food from their social assistance cheques. Fresh Start Services has exhausted their funding helping out the victims of the fire and are without funds until government funding comes through.
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