The mom of school shooting survivor Maya Gebala says the family has been unable to secure housing in the Vancouver region, where the 12-year-old is still hospitalized, due to their ineligibility for victim support funding.
Cia Edmonds and her younger daughter Dahlia have been living in Vancouver since Maya was rushed to the hospital there in the aftermath of the Feb. 10 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
“It has been nearly impossible to acquire housing knowing she will likely be in a wheelchair,” Cia Edmonds said in a May 29 update to a GoFundMe page for the family.
Edmonds and her other daughter had been living in Airbnb rentals so they could be nearby while Maya continues her recovery in hospital but the family has been unable to qualify for government support and the Airbnb costs were not sustainable without that help, she said….