The Yellow Brick House.

The Yellow Brick House, a homeless shelter for women and children, is one out of three hundred ten homeless shelters in the province.  In 2018 a census shows that under half a million Canadian households with mortgages spend over 50 percent of their income on mortgage payments, making it difficult to live in a household. However, The Yellow Brick house has achieved housing 234 women and 132 children last year alone, with counselling offered to both the women and children. Fortunately, they also have an education program with York Region to ensure that children in the shelters are still able to go to school, they have given 4,095 students a chance to go to a school in York Region.  With two Yellow Brick House shelter giving their service to the community, they have been able to help over 5,000 women in children that need help with finding shelter, counselling and education.