With several uncertain proposals on offer, no one strategy is emerging to shelter people during the coldest months
“The main problem is that they [BC Housing] did not ask anyone before they bought these hotels,” furniture retailer Gordy Dodd told Capital Daily
One resident of the Howard Johnson tells Capital Daily “it's getting taken over by people selling dope”
Everybody wants the tents gone, but few have produced plans to actually get people clean and off the street
For the next year, Capital Daily will be regularly profiling the same four people experiencing homelessness or on the brink of it
Even a dedicated support network cannot be enough to keep a severely mentally ill son off the streets
With 112 tents and counting, park behind Crystal Pool becomes latest stop on merry-go-round of Victoria tent encampments
We recently spent time in the park and spoke to campers.
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