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Day after day we hear health officials and politicians urging Canadians to stay at home and self-isolate during this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.

But what about people who have no home? How do the poorest of the poor comply? How do they stay safe?

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Some pretty creative solutions are being dreamed up around Calgary.

Just last week, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi revealed that the city and the province would work together to house homeless people in hotels and motels.

And now, for the foreseeable future, the largest church in Calgary’s southeast quadrant will be a homeless shelter.

Starting on Monday night, 120 men will be sleeping at First Alliance Church just off of Deerfoot Trail on Barlow Trail.

“The province called The Mustard Seed and said that we had to create the distance of at least one metre between every mat or bed and that took our Foothills shelter capacity down from 370 guests to 220 and so then we had to find alternatives in a hurry,” explained Stephen Wile, CEO of the Mustard Seed ministry.