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A new temporary Vancouver shelter offering street-based sex workers a safe, warm place to sleep 24 hours a day, seven days a week will soon be opening in the Downtown Eastside.

"There are so many women who have been using the WISH drop-in as a de facto shelter," explains Beyene. "Women would often sleep in the drop-in, but it means sleeping in armchairs, which I mean we can't really, really rest and we can't really get comfortable when your neck is contorted to sleep in those chairs.

“A shelter exclusively for sex workers has been a need for quite some time, but COVID has now deeply exacerbated the pre-existing crises of poverty, homelessness, and a poisoned drug supply. A temporary, emergency shelter like this is absolutely critical—now more than ever.”

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — As businesses around the province close and their workers self-isolate, sex workers in B.C. are facing increased challenges to their health, safety and are experiencing an overwhelming financial strain.

During this time, Davis says some clients have even been trying to take advantage of the decline in business.

“[Some] trying to offer less money, trying to negotiate for a better price, asking for services that the workers don’t usually provide.”

She says clients are negotiating, “because they know that workers are getting more and more desperate.”

Hamilton, who died on December 23, was a noted advocate and activist for sex workers' and LGBT rights.

The gathering is scheduled to run between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. at St. Paul's Anglican Church (1130 Jervis Street) in the West End of Vancouver.