Homelessness in Abbotsford is up 41% in a single year. The people walking through our doors are facing more complex challenges, in greater numbers than ever before. Your generosity is the foundation everything else is built on.
654
Neighbours without a home
Counted in Abbotsford, October 2025
+41%
Year-over-year increase
In just 12 months — and still undercounted
210
Active shelter beds in the city
A gap of 440+ people every single night
~100K
Hot meals served in 2025
By your Centre of Hope
6,000
Neighbours using the food bank monthly
Nearly doubled in three years
~100,000
Hot Meals – 2025
~13,000
Nights Off The Street
~1,500
Patients Seen On-Site
14 Beds
Supported Recovery
~4,000
Neighbours Via Outreach
The Community Context
The need is not slowing down.
It is growing.
Behind every number is a neighbour, a patient, a family. This is what the data tells us about our community right now.
580+
Toxic Drug Deaths
Abbotsford neighbours lost to the toxic drug crisis since 2016 — roughly one person every six days. Most deaths occur indoors, out of sight.
$1,847
Average Monthly Rent
The average asking rent in Abbotsford as of December 2025. A household needs to earn $61,200/year to afford it without housing stress — far beyond what minimum wage or income assistance provides.
2X
Homelessness Since 2004
The number of people experiencing homelessness has more than doubled since the first count in 2004. Two-thirds have been homeless for more than one year. 97% report at least one health challenge.
These are not abstract statistics. They are the faces that walk through our doors every morning. The people our outreach workers find sleeping outside. The mothers coming to us with nowhere else to turn.
The need in our community is outpacing our current capacity. That is precisely why what comes next matters so much.
"The need is not slowing down. It is growing. That is precisely why what comes next matters so much."
Rob Studiman · Community Ministries Director
Salvation Army Centre of Hope, Abbotsford
Two Pressing Needs
Building the Capacity our Community
Deserves.
Our capacity has to scale with the growing needs of our community. The people coming through our doors are facing more complex challenges, in greater numbers than ever before. These are not upgrades for their own sake — they are direct responses to unmet need.
Capacity Campaign - 2026
Help us raise $250,000
to build the capacity our community needs.
$25,000
raised of $250,000 goal
Every dollar goes directly toward two pressing needs: a purpose-built women’s shelter renovation and a new refrigerated box truck — the vital link in the food supply chain that delivers nearly 100,000 meals a year.
Need #1 - Women's Shelter Renovation
Real Walls. Real Dignity. A Shelter Built to Last.
For years, our women’s shelter space has existed as a temporary construction — a bunkbed behind a divider, not a home. It was always meant to be interim. It has stayed far too long.
This year, that changes. The space is undergoing significant renovation to give the women who come to us in their most vulnerable moments something they deserve: a real room. Real walls. A living space that says you matter — not just a bed tucked behind a curtain.
The result: purpose-built shelter for 10 women, each and every night of the year. Not makeshift. Not temporary. Built with the dignity every person deserves.
RENOVATION
Significant structural upgrade underway in 2026
CAPACITY
10 women · Purpose-built · Every night of the year
WHY NOW
654 people homeless in Abbotsford, 41% more than last year
Your gift helps build a space worthy of the people we serve.
Need #2 - Food Supply Chain
A New Box Truck. 100,000 Meals. More Neighbours Fed.
Every year, our Salvation Army box truck makes the runs that keep our kitchen running — picking up donations, collecting food from suppliers and partners, delivering the ingredients for nearly 100,000 hot meals served to our neighbours.
That truck needs replacing. It has served us faithfully, but it is no longer reliable enough for the routes we need to run — and it isn’t refrigerated, which limits what we can pick up and how far we can go.
A newer, refrigerated unit means we can pick up more food, from farther away, to feed more neighbours. It’s not just a vehicle — it’s a vital link in the chain that gets food from donors and suppliers to the people who need it most.
IMPACT
~100,000 hot meals depend on this supply chain annually
UPGRADE
Refrigerated unit = more food, farther reach, more neighbours fed
CONTEXT
6,000 neighbours use Abbotsford’s food bank every month