Six months in, Hamilton’s mini-cabin community has experienced hope and despair as staff and residents navigate the choppy waters of overlapping housing and opioid crises.

After enduring the rigours of unsheltered homelessness , residents of the Barton Street West outdoor shelter project are stabilizing and taking steps to wellness.

And by the end of the month, as many as 10 are expected to be housed, adds Katherine Kalinowski, chief operating officer of Good Shepherd, the social-service agency that runs the cabin community for the city.

That some people at the Barton site are being housed is “actually astonishing and wonderful given the dynamics at play,” says Katherine Kalinowski, chief operating officer with Good Shepherd. Hamilton Spectator file photo

“The fact that people

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