Romero House to open apartment building for refugee families
A west-end refugee settlement centre is set to open an apartment building for newcomers starting later this month.
Romero House has been providing transitional housing to refugee claimants who have arrived in Canada without private or government sponsorship since 1991 […].
It’s now leasing 2387 Dundas St. W. with the help of city funding, and will house nine refugee claimant families and three house coordinators sometime in mid-October.
Romero House executive director Francesca Allodi-Ross told CBC Toronto that the 100-year-old building was recently renovated, but for a time it was largely vacant, purchased previously by a buyer as an investment.
She said her team is grateful “to be able to offer this beautiful space… to families fleeing horrible, horrible things from around the world in this housing crisis.”