City of Vancouver To Set Up Homeless Shelter in Yaletown Angry homeowners in Yaletown are accusing the City of Vancouver of sneakily building an emergency homeless shelter that they fear will turn their street and local park into a drug-ridden danger zone. The temporary winter shelter in the 1200-block Seymour Street will open in early December housing up to 40 homeless. The city's so-called "HEAT" shelter program has been in effect since 2008. The shelters are run with "low-barrier" rules so street dwellers with drug-addiction and mental-health problems can come inside bringing pets, belongings in shopping carts and friends. On Seymour Street, a number of unhappy neighbours say the city has been heavy-handed and duplicitous in preparing the new shelter space on the sly without consulting hundreds of nearby condo owners. For the 7th year in a row, more than 100 recovering addicts from the greater Vancouver area get together and go into the Downtown Eastside to feed the homeless and do outreach Bringing the message of Hope And Recovery to the Downtown Eastside. The success of the last 6 years of outreach involved over 100 people with minimal financial and material support. We were still able to feed and meet the needs of over 1000 people each year. The majority of the people involved with this cause have a history of substance abuse and a high percentage of those people came from the downtown eastside and are now free from their addictions and are productive members of society today.