Homeless living blocks away from proposed Indwell development

By Pepper Parr

March 11, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

When Leah Logan spoke to Council a week or so ago, she said Indwell wanted to provide affordable housing to people who lived in Burlington.

Stopping place for quite a few people. The move what they have in shopping carts to a location that is safe for them.

She perhaps didn’t know that there were homeless people living just over a block away under a bridge from where they expect to build affordable homes..

Burlington is home for them – they just didn’t have homes.

Burlington was home for them – they just didn’t have homes.

When the Gazette found these people, we got a look at where they live and the conditions they had to cope with.

We got to speak to a couple who had been living rough for a couple of years.

The idea that a home might become available to them in a year or more (Indwell hopes to have their building permit in December of this year, astounded them.

Home is under a bridge in a tent.

“What do we have to do to get a real home they asked.

I said I would keep in touch with them – the problem is they didn’t have cell phones, they don’t have access to internet services.

The just lived under a bridge.