When Melanie MacDonald heard the emergency shelter component was being removed from the revised Elliott Street Supportive Housing project, things went dark.

The Quesnel Shelter & Support Society (QSSS) executive director and Seasons House operator says the society worked toward the new facility on Elliott Street with BC Housing for nearly five years.

"That new facility was the light at the end of the tunnel for us."

MacDonald says they began looking at fixing Seasons House with BC Housing nearly five years ago, but the Crown corporation determined it would to be too expensive to repair the buildings.

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