For the first time this season, dozens of people who do not have a home slept at a pop-up shelter at London's Boyle Community Centre, taking up almost all of the available beds.

The City of London opened an additional 60 shelter beds Sunday and had 56 people show up there to sleep.

The city's policy this winter is that additional beds will be available when temperatures drop below –15 C with a windchill of –20 C. Overnight into Monday, Environment Canada said the temperature hit –17 C, but felt colder with the wind chill.

"We are monitoring weather conditions to see if threshold temperatures will be met [tonight], to determine if the temporary warming centre needs to be in place again this evening as part of the City of London’s extreme temperature protocol ," said city spokespers

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