United Way-funded counsellors help vulnerable seniors to find housing

Volunteer housing counsellor Joanne smiles as she leans on her walker outside a mall in New Westminster.

It’s been a long haul, but life is much easier than a few years ago, when everything suddenly spiraled downhill. A bad fall, an angina attack and diabetes forced her to retire from her job as a medical office assistant, and about the same time, her sister passed away.

“It was a bad year,” says Joanne, now 66. She’d been living with her sister for 10 years and after her death, found out just how hard it was to find a place she could afford in the Lower Mainland.

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