People without homes who have lived in the capital region for a year or more should be given higher priority for housing than those who recently moved here, says Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps.
In a motion going to committee of the whole on Thursday, Helps and three city councillors recommend that a one-year residency requirement be added to the list of criteria that’s used when assessing people for housing.
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Funny how the report continues to try to tell us that its a myth that homeless people here have come from elsewhere when a couple of quick calculations reveal that close to 200 arrived in the past year and 800 or so within the past 5 years.