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This group helped hundreds of families avoid homelessness. Now the funding has run out
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2:22Now PlayingThe John Howard Society of P.E.I. has been running a provincial pilot project called the Prevention and Diversion Fund, which provided vulnerable Islanders money to pay for things like first months’ rent to prevent them from becoming homeless. Government was funding that program, but the society says it needs more money for the program to work. CBC’s Tony Davis has more.
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