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[Victoria Watcher]

I don’t understand the “safe” cigarette reference.

Are these cancer free?

 

probably some nonsense about the smokes traded on the streets (singles and indian reserve) are the bootleg type, and so might contain bad products.  so we need to protect the vulnerable smokers.

[Mike K.]

I would not be surprised if these are privately rolled (i.e. not corporate-made) cigarettes.

[sebberry]

I agree that laundry services need to be provided.  I also agree that those who are in need of such services should be the ones volunteering to run, clean and maintain the place.  The funding keeps flowing to these organizations with no 'end to homelessness' in sight.  

[spanky123]

I agree that laundry services need to be provided.  I also agree that those who are in need of such services should be the ones volunteering to run, clean and maintain the place.  The funding keeps flowing to these organizations with no 'end to homelessness' in sight.  

 

We have to pay City employees to clean up after the homeless in their own camps. Why would you think for a second they would do their own laundry?

 

Perhaps if we instituted a "free but you have to work for it or help out" policy we might finally end homelessness in Victoria.

[Victoria Watcher]

“Free but you have to work for it” works great in the massive part of society that is not homeless.

It’s called pay for it with your money.

That can work just fine for laundry too.

If you are so ****ed up that you are choosing between a $4 laundry load or more crack you should be forcefully taken off the street and put in an institute.

and not mt. tolmie hospital to terrorize that neighbourhood as has now begun:

https://www.vicnews....fters-to-leave/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 June 2021 - 01:11 PM.

[A Girl is No one]

That is very close to the new low barrier housing indeed.

[Victoria Watcher]

Central Saanich calls for delay in supportive housing project deadline

 

Municipality wants more say in eventual choice of contractor to run supportive housing project

 

https://www.vicnews....oject-deadline/

 

 

Council also agreed to ask Island Health about its plans to support future residents at the facility.

 

 

^ read between the lines with me on this one.  "will it have a safe injection site"?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 June 2021 - 05:34 AM.

[spanky123]

Central Saanich calls for delay in supportive housing project deadline

 

Municipality wants more say in eventual choice of contractor to run supportive housing project

 

 

Nice of them to want a say, the question remains as to whether they will get one. That doesn't seem to be Mr. Eby's style.

[Greg]

An actual discussion focused on the idea that not all supportive housing contractors are equal might be a good thing. One could even dream of performance standards existing and being reviewed.

[Victoria Watcher]

it seems they always just grab the usual ones off the shelf on a rotational basis.

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 June 2021 - 07:46 AM.

[A Girl is No one]

I asked before about the procurement process for these years ago . Got no answer. It doesn’t seem to follow the standard procedures.

[A Girl is No one]

Thé LA sheriff gets it… let’s hope he starts something…

« You cannot build your way out of homelessness,” Villanueva said. “It was the Los Angeles Homeless Authority themselves that said for every 100 that we house, they’re replaced by 120 on the street – that math seems to elude these people … our elected officials.” »

https://justthenews....aign=newsletter

[Victoria Watcher]

Thé LA sheriff gets it… let’s hope he starts something…

« You cannot build your way out of homelessness,” Villanueva said. “It was the Los Angeles Homeless Authority themselves that said for every 100 that we house, they’re replaced by 120 on the street – that math seems to elude these people … our elected officials.” »

https://justthenews....aign=newsletter

“It is a national disgrace,” Villanueva said. “All those 501 C-3 organizations … we’re going to talk about money; there is a homeless industrial complex, and they’re raking in money, not by the millions, not by the hundreds of millions, by the billions.”

The top earning employees compensated by the Venice Family Clinic revenue, a nonprofit organization tasked with providing comprehensive health care services to low-income Venice Beach residents, total over $2.8 million, Villanueva said.

Additionally, Los Angeles spends close to $1 billion annually on homeless services, while homelessness has only gotten worse.

[kitty surprise]

Toronto gets it, "it’s not the homeless looking for a confrontation; it’s their evangelical champions."

https://www.thestar....impression=true

[Mike K.]

On Prime there is a docuseries called The Beat which follows cops working in the the downtown east side.

The overarching theme, from the 2010 period of the series, is the revolving door justice system that handles serious repeat offenders with kid gloves, and how that undermines police work and creates havoc on the streets. Sound familiar?

What’s shocking is that series then was what Victoria is like now. I highly recommend people watch it to understand how the police reports we read from VicPD play out in real life, on camera.

[Awaiting Juno]

Apparently both Canadian Tire and private security firms in Victoria had really, really good years last year - largely supported by City of Victoria spending and demand for camping supplies. 

[A Girl is No one]

Grrrr

[pontcanna]

New mobile clinic serves region’s street population

Times Colonist  8 Jul 2021


Nurse Karen Lundgren with patient Garry Gordon in the van, seen below, that’s serving as a mobile health clinic, in the parking lot of the Lodge, formerly the Travelodge on Gorge Road East.

Until recently, health outreach workers for Victoria Cool Aid Society who wanted to see their homeless patients had to go on foot, with all of their supplies on their backs.

“Having ‘feet on the street’ is your traditional outreach,” said Karen Lundgren, clinical nurse leader with Cool Aid. “We knew that we could see more people, go to more places and do more with the right equipment.”

That right equipment has arrived in the form of a new specially equipped van — a medical office on wheels — that will be used by the health outreach team, which consists of a doctor, nurse, nurse practitioner, social worker and outreach coordinator.

 

More: https://digitaltimes...281586653592748

 

[Nparker]

Better health care services than I get.

[Barrrister]

Better health care than most working people in this city get.