One of the partners running the transitional housing facility near St. John’s Airport is not happy about being excluded from the decision-making process to shut down the former hotel at year’s end.

About 75 people are housed at the former Airport Comfort Inn, the Horizons 106 project designed to help those who otherwise have difficulty securing safe, affordable housing. It’s a collaboration between End Homelessness St. John’s, the Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation, and Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services.

The project has cost the government millions, but proponents say it has also saved taxpayers over $12-million in shelter costs.

The provincial government’s announcement a couple of weeks ago that the facility would no longer be housed for housing as of the end of December caught End Homelessness off guard.

Executive director Doug Pawson says residents are scared right now as they don’t know what is next for them.

There are currently a couple of dozen people being housed in hotels in the metro.

“And we can support those people or others in the support system. The plans for beyond Horizons have to be communicated to the folks who are currently being housed there,” says Pawson.