After years of pursuing housing options for Winnipeg’s homeless, Siloam Mission recently purchased the Wolseley-area Madison Memorial Lodge on 210 Evanson Street.

The 87-unit housing complex will provide dry, supportive housing for guests of our overnight shelter that want to transition into self-sufficient lifestyles, but need supports in place to help them achieve their goals. Siloam Mission took possession of the Madison on April 1, 2011 following a year of negotiations with the Madison Lodge organization.

Renovating The Madison

The facilities are run down and in dire need of repairs. In the coming year, we will renovate the four-storey building top to bottom to meet building code specs and provide a safe space for residents turning a new page in their lives.

Our goal is to create a dignified place where people can start rebuilding their lives – a place that people are proud to call “home.”

To avoid bedbugs, the finished suites will have metal box springs, vinyl mattresses, metal bed frames, metal/plastic furniture and be completely void of carpet or wood.

Suites are expected to be renovated by Spring of 2012.