I am going to say first I am against ANY free housing period in general. I don't care if you are 65 and decided not save a dime for retirement or are a drug addict or what ever. NOT MY PROBLEM or any other taxpayers for that matter. My suggestion is stop by the CRD recycling centre for a free cardboard box
Great initiative but won't fly. Ask anyone on the board or management team at any one of the poverty service providers and they will tell you the same thing. The goal is not to just house the homeless, the goal is to get them homes. The same thing you and I have wherever these folks want to live. Nothing short of that is acceptable and solutions such as what you propose actually work against that goal as it takes the focus off of people living on the streets.
Sorry, but I agree it won't fly. I wish it would thou
The ones that show they can take care of these sleeping units will be first on the list for available better housing. This is your path in.
But this is also for single-employables. Single-employables are not eligible for any other completely free housing.
The biggest advantage of what I'm building here is that they are cheap. And they are not converted hotel (Super 8, Tally Ho) or senior assisted-living units (Mt. Edwards), that on the whole are the completely wrong -and expensive - way to go.
That's not the issue, these people are guaranteed a unit no matter how badly they trash it, I've heard from someone at BC Housing that at Johnson St shelter (sorry can't remember the name) that a resident stripped their room of drywall, no one saw them take any drywall out of the room and past any security which means they took the time to crumple all the drywall to basically dust and take it out in their pockets. Apparently a trash contractor is there every few days removing garbage from Johnson St with full police escort. I heard that they once took out like 70 TV sets which had magically shown up in only a few days
This is reality of what you are dealing with
Masonry block walls are a good idea thou
Ideally, we'd build it in an aging school gym. And then build the school a new gym. Vic High, Esq, High? The existing Crystal Pool building? The CRD warehouse in Esqiuimalt? The warehouse under 3025 Douglas St.?
Are you suggesting that Vic High, Esq High etc have homeless camps built on campus? I can already see the parents coming to your house with pitchforks and torches
CRD warehouse has been converted and rented to a trampoline company