Capital Daily spent a year following a “lifer” as he navigated the subsidized housing system in BC
Anna is an award-winning journalist originally from Sydney, Australia. She began her professional career in publishing at Wiley and then reported for Major League Baseball’s international office. Anna has written for Entrepreneur, Fox Sports, NSW Parliament, Narratively, ABC, Fortune, and other outlets in addition to regular guest spots on radio and podcasts. In 2017, she was awarded the Australian Press Council’s Journalism Student of the Year. The same year, she co-hosted a radio program in Byron Bay that won a Walkley Award for Innovation in Journalism grant. She is currently completing her thesis, Why We Need Baseball, within the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Victoria. She is happy to call Victoria home.
One resident of the Howard Johnson tells Capital Daily “it's getting taken over by people selling dope”
For the next year, Capital Daily will be regularly profiling the same four people experiencing homelessness or on the brink of it
