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[Victoria Watcher]

[rmpeers]

Red Cedar Inn? Rooms plus $7 meal specials and the Cedar Fox Pub featuring live entertainment.

[Rob Randall]

Lot of rumours floating around this weekend they'll announce a full Ontario-style lockdown Monday, Adrian Dix answers rumours with a simple "no".

[Matt R.]

I ordered fewer burger buns for tomorrow just in case.

Matt.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria seeks $3M to $4M in grant funds to enhance community services for unhoused population

 

Various supports, services for unhoused population part of broad-based funding application

 

An ambitious set of goals designed to help some of the community’s most vulnerable members is behind Victoria’s application for millions in new provincial funding.

 

The city’s proposals for the Strengthening Communities’ Services Program grant range from peer outreach and temporary service support for people sheltering in parks, to a tiny homes project, a community safety initiative in Burnside Gorge and additional protective services at night. The application contains between $3 million and $4 million worth of proposals, but staff and council are hopeful the city will gain approval for more than the $2.5 million its population allows for under the grant guidelines.

 

https://www.vicnews....sed-population/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 April 2021 - 02:43 AM.

[Urbanpioneer]

Victoria seeks $3M to $4M in grant funds to enhance community services for unhoused population

 

Various supports, services for unhoused population part of broad-based funding application

 

An ambitious set of goals designed to help some of the community’s most vulnerable members is behind Victoria’s application for millions in new provincial funding.

 

The city’s proposals for the Strengthening Communities’ Services Program grant range from peer outreach and temporary service support for people sheltering in parks, to a tiny homes project, a community safety initiative in Burnside Gorge and additional protective services at night. The application contains between $3 million and $4 million worth of proposals, but staff and council are hopeful the city will gain approval for more than the $2.5 million its population allows for under the grant guidelines.

 

https://www.vicnews....sed-population/

Good news

[Nparker]

Good news

Not for the already overburdened taxpayer.

[Tom Braybrook]

this!

 

 

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[A Girl is No one]

So CoV has zero intention of ending camping in parks. And making sure that Conrad Ben’s « cafe » will be fully funded.
Doesn’t that clearly demonstrate that they are reneging in their end of the deal they have with Eby and the province!

[Victoria Watcher]

No one was seriously injured after a trailer caught fire at a problem property in Port Alberni, but Port Alberni’s fire chief says the outcome could have been much worse.

 

The Port Alberni Fire Department responded to a report of a trailer on fire at the Wintergreen Apartments in the 3600-block of Fourth Avenue just before 5 a.m. on Monday, April 12.

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The Wintergreen Apartments have been a cause for concern for the City of Port Alberni for months. The property, which is located across from the bottle depot on Fourth Avenue, is home to a number of trailers. Property owner Randy Brown began moving trailers behind the apartment complex back in November 2020, offering shelter for the city’s homeless population.

 

However, the city is concerned about numerous zoning, building code and fire code infractions surrounding the trailers. The trailers are tied into the apartment’s sewer system and extension cords run from each trailer into the building.

 

 

 

https://www.vancouve...berni-property/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 April 2021 - 06:28 PM.

[Urbanpioneer]

 

No one was seriously injured after a trailer caught fire at a problem property in Port Alberni, but Port Alberni’s fire chief says the outcome could have been much worse.

 

The Port Alberni Fire Department responded to a report of a trailer on fire at the Wintergreen Apartments in the 3600-block of Fourth Avenue just before 5 a.m. on Monday, April 12.

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The Wintergreen Apartments have been a cause for concern for the City of Port Alberni for months. The property, which is located across from the bottle depot on Fourth Avenue, is home to a number of trailers. Property owner Randy Brown began moving trailers behind the apartment complex back in November 2020, offering shelter for the city’s homeless population.

 

However, the city is concerned about numerous zoning, building code and fire code infractions surrounding the trailers. The trailers are tied into the apartment’s sewer system and extension cords run from each trailer into the building.

 

 

 

https://www.vancouve...berni-property/

 

Mr. Brown is a saint, buying trailers and giving the less fortunate a place to live, yet he gets vilified for a few minor code violations here and there.. could you imagine how amazing it would be if a cornerstone property in Victoria did the same thing? , park some old travel trailers on the empress lawn and make a meaningful difference!!

[Nparker]

Mr. Brown is a saint, buying trailers and giving the less fortunate a place to live, yet he gets vilified for a few minor code violations here and there..

"Minor code violations" as you so eloquently put it, are there to protect everyone, even people as ill informed as you.

[Tom Braybrook]

Mr. Brown is a saint, buying trailers and giving the less fortunate a place to live, yet he gets vilified for a few minor code violations here and there.. could you imagine how amazing it would be if a cornerstone property in Victoria did the same thing? , park some old travel trailers on the empress lawn and make a meaningful difference!!

...taking "saintliness" to its' traditional endpoint of self-immolation is a bit extreme...is it not?

[Mike K.]

Home listings within a 1-3 block perimeter of the announced supportive housing facilities are hitting the market daily.

[Victoria Watcher]

so they are already economic generators for the settlers?

[Tom Braybrook]

Home listings within a 1-3 block perimeter of the announced supportive housing facilities are hitting the market daily.

is this an unusual amount of activity?

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[Tom Braybrook]

simialr sized area in my neighbourhood

 

 

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[Victoria Watcher]

[rmpeers]

I understand there is a movement afoot for some campers to refuse to be forced indoors. So, shockingly, there is just a remote chance that homelessness won't magically end in May.