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A social agency that provides shelter and mental health and addictions programs to London’s homeless is being forced to cut two key services after its request for increased provincial funding was denied — a move one anti-poverty advocate says could harm the city’s most vulnerable.

Mission Services of London is winding down its crash bed program at its York Street shelter and will be making changes to the services it offers at its live-in addiction treatment facility for men, Quintin Warner House, citing lack of sufficient funding for the programs.

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The agency will be closing 21 crash beds, 10 for women and 11 for men, at the York Street shelter by April 1. In the budget year of 2017-18, the beds handled 7,690 stays.

Hours of service at Quintin Warner House on Queens Avenue will be changed because of the funding issue.

“Our focus now is on ensuring a smooth transition for clients,” Mission Services executive director Peter Rozeluk said in a statement. “We are committed to the well-being of individuals in our community regardless of which organization provides the service.”