Federal Government and Accommodations

settlement agency: They're amongst 121 Syrians still in temporary accommodations, all of whom arrived before March 1 during the federal government push to welcome refugees, according to CBC. Some of the families are staying in hotels and motels at a cost of $90 to $120 per night, plus $10 per person per day for food. Alsidawe, 19, has been living with his family — four siblings aged 15 to 26 and his mother, a widow — in a motel unit in East Vancouver since early February. Alsidawe says ISSofBC — the settlement agency tasked with settling government assisted refugees like his family — hasn't shown his family a potential home in six weeks. They just kind of ignoring." A complicated process' ISSofBC director of settlement services Chris Friesen says they're working "flat out" on the "monumental task" of finding housing in Metro Vancouver for refugees on budgets tied to provincial welfare rates. He dubs it the "failure office". "Every day we talk to them and no one answers, no one replied, no one cares," said Hatem. "They don't even look to us, they don't give us the answers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.