Winnipeg’s new restrictions on homeless encampments have been in place for more than a week, and while the city says its focus is on offering housing and supports before clearing any sites, one outreach organization says people are showing up at its door seeking help.

St. Boniface Street Links founder Marion Willis says her organization, which does not receive city funding for outreach, has housed 11 people in the past week, all of them former encampment residents.

"Police are bringing them to us, and people are coming on their own to us. And so it is St. Boniface Street Links that is largely intervening here to link people to income supports and housing," said Willis.

People have come from several locations, including Mostyn Park near the Granite Curling Club, as well as camps near the

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