QUESTION
How many asylum seekers were placed on the waitlist for overnight shelter beds, and what are the conditions of the waiting areas?
2:14:01
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No asylum seekers were rejected for overnight shelter but were placed on a waitlist and offered indoor waiting areas with food and other services.
- Exact numbers of asylum seekers applying for shelter and rejected are pending follow-up; however, it's confirmed that no rejections occurred.
- After 30 days, asylum seekers can go to specific locations like Saint Brigitte's to be placed on a waitlist for the next available bed.
- People on the waitlist are offered a place indoors to wait for a new shelter placement, with food and other services provided.
- Despite these provisions, concerns regarding space and capacity have been voiced, with an admission of running out of space for asylum seekers.
Shahana Hanif
2:14:01
How many asylum seekers applied for an overnight shelter bed yesterday and were rejected?
Molly Schaeffer
2:14:10
We'll have to follow-up with you on that exact number.
2:14:12
And nobody was rejected.
2:14:14
People were put on the wait list.
Shahana Hanif
2:14:15
So what's the wait list?
Molly Schaeffer
2:14:18
After 30 days, people can go to Saint Brigitte's and be put on the waitlist for the next available bed.
Shahana Hanif
2:14:24
Right.
2:14:24
But the waitlist is is like a like, code for they don't have a bed.
Molly Schaeffer
2:14:33
Everyone has offered a place indoors outside of the elements to wait overnight while they wait for a bed placement.
Shahana Hanif
2:14:45
Will you repeat that?
Molly Schaeffer
2:14:48
Everyone has offered a place indoors to wait while they wait for a new placement at their shelter a new bookshelter placement.
Shahana Hanif
2:14:56
Where do they wait indoors?
Molly Schaeffer
2:15:00
There is a we have a couple of sites where people can wait.
Shahana Hanif
2:15:08
Can you describe the conditions of these waiting centers?
Molly Schaeffer
2:15:14
There are place indoors where people can wait where we provide food and other services while they while they are there.
Shahana Hanif
2:15:29
So do they have amenities like beds or pots?
Molly Schaeffer
2:15:37
I'm gonna take a step back here because I think that we're going a little down a rabbit hole, but we've have over we have served over a 179,000 migrants.
2:15:48
We have said, overtime again and again that we're running out of space.
2:15:53
We have hit our capacity.
2:15:55
We said that many, many months ago, and we are doing everything we can to get people new shelter placements as quickly as we can.
Shahana Hanif
2:16:10
THAT'S NOT THE POINT.
2:16:11
WE KNOW THAT.
2:16:12
WE KNOW THAT FROM THE START, WE'VE BEEN SAYING THAT over and over over the last 2 years.
2:16:19
It's okay to say that there isn't a bed in these waiting centers, that what we're witnessing, what this what the members have said here that what we're seeing is true.
