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How many asylum seekers were placed on the waitlist for overnight shelter beds, and what are the conditions of the waiting areas?

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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.

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