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[Beacon]

They need to start pushing people out of these supportive housing units to make room for others and if they can't, start asking why and fix it.  It's not a temporary housing, it's literally the last stop with no way out.

 

One wonders why they don't share publicly turn over rates broken down by how many moved on to market housing vs. died of OD or kicked out due to violence/rules issuses.

[Mike K.]

The majority of the approximately 15,000 people living in supportive housing create a positive community in their homes and with their neighbours.

What’s the taxpayer subsidy per month? $1,000? That’s $15 million per month or $180 million annually, if it is.

[Beacon]

What’s the taxpayer subsidy per month? $1,000? That’s $15 million per month or $180 million annually, if it is.

 

We all know these place will have a shorter life span since they weren't built to industrial facility standards (repurposed hotels).  So one can imagine a huge conundrum in about -5 years when the buildings are all in dire states of disrepair.  Where do they go while the construction/renos are taking place?

[Mike P.]

What’s the taxpayer subsidy per month? $1,000? That’s $15 million per month or $180 million annually, if it is.

 

If only it was just that..
 

B.C. Housing paid about $15 million — several million above the assessed value — when it bought Paul’s Motor Inn to provide shelter and support for people without homes.

 

https://www.biv.com/...tor-inn-8260815

[Victoria Watcher]

$250K set aside for community safety hub in Victoria’s Burnside Gorge neighbourhood

 

https://cheknews.ca/...urhood-1309734/

[Victoria Watcher]

A complaint about weapons at a supportive housing facility prompted a heavy police presence in downtown Victoria Thursday afternoon.

 

The weapons turned out to be two BB guns.

 

Victoria police said its officers were called to a building on Yates Street near Cook Street around 3:20 p.m. after a report that someone in one of the building’s suites had two suspected firearms, as well as prohibited weapons.

 

https://www.timescol...report-11965259

[Victoria Watcher]

“Businesses have been coming to us proactively and saying how many fewer times they are having to deal with folks who are perhaps using spaces near their offices and businesses to rest. That they are seeing a higher number of folks who are walking around in uniforms, variety of both bylaw and police, that they are seeing the impact of how we are creating spaces for people to go just so that we are not moving people around. But actually designating and creating spaces for them to go,” Alto said.

 

 

https://cheknews.ca/...y-plan-1311264/

 

 

 

 

having to deal with folks who are perhaps using spaces near their offices and businesses to rest.

 

 

Rest from what, their hard day at work?   This Mayor is ridiculous.  

 

 

 

 

we are creating spaces for people to go just so that we are not moving people around. But actually designating and creating spaces for them to go,” Alto said.

 

 

 

Examples?

 

 

 

Alto said that business owners and people who live downtown are consistently approaching her, and other members of council to let them know the downtown is improving.

 

 

 

 

Ya, OK!  

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 March 2026 - 02:36 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Residents are expected to start moving in next week to a new 48-unit supportive-housing facility in Duncan.

 

[...]

 

At the Duncan facility, staff are expected to be on-site 24/7, and residents will receive two meals a day, management of individual cases and access to health-and-wellness programs.

 

 

[...]

 

The White Road units, owned by the province through B.C. Housing, are all self-contained studio suites with a private bathroom, a kitchenette with a full-sized fridge, and furnishings.

 

The building also includes a dining room, a shared-amenity room and office space.

 

Residents will pay the provincial shelter rate of $500 per month or 30 per cent of their employment income.

 

B.C. Housing provided about $25 million for the project, and will supply about $1.5 million in annual operating funds from the Building B.C.: Supportive Housing Fund.

 

The federal government, through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, contributed $2.4 million from the Affordable Housing Fund.

 

 

https://www.timescol...cility-12013234

 

 

 

 

 

 

$571,000 bachelor suites in Duncan.  Each tenant pays $6,000 per year in rent, but each unit/person also requires $31,250 in ongoing operating funding.  Each unemployed person that lives here will get about $43,250 per year from the taxpayer, plus we gave them a home valued at $571,000.  Interest and repayment of capital over 25 years at 4% on that $571,000 would be $36,036/year.  We are also paying that. 

 

So essentially, we pay $79,286 per year for each person.  $6,690 per month.  

 

Are we doing this right?

 

 

 

 

Tenants, who are being selected through an assessment process, will include some people currently staying at a temporary supportive-housing facility on Trunk Road, known as The Village.

 

 

What process?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Today, 02:51 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Are we doing this right?

 

Obviously not.  This money should be put towards SHELTERS.  Like the ones I have drawn up and shown here.  Single rooms, common bathrooms.  No visitors, curfew, screening of belongings.  Less than 1/12th the cost of this facility in Duncan.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Today, 02:50 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Our Place CEO Julian Daly stands in the 1000 block of Pandora Avenue. Daly says the camping and congregating that was entrenched on Pandora Avenue for several years “has now disappeared, essentially,” which has made a huge difference for clients who rely on the food services at Our Place.

 

https://www.timescol...encies-12012658

 

 

 

Is this true?  Somebody said they were at Big O Tire the other day and it was the worst they had ever seen.

[Mike K.]

Somebody also messaged us recently to say loitering and drug use has returned to the 1000-block of Pandora.

Why is the city of Victoria letting people live in the park on the 1000 block of Pandora?They are smoking meth all day in front of kids waiting for the bus.

Our response was, that there’s a new bylaw hub just down the street so there should be more eyes on the street, and suggested contacting the city to file a complaint.

I tried but there is no public access for that office. Can you help please? My kids have to stand at that bus stop everyday and its extremely stressful.

We get messages like this from downtown residents all the time. Businesses not so much, but from time to time.

[Matt R.]

Our Place CEO Julian Daly stands in the 1000 block of Pandora Avenue. Daly says the camping and congregating that was entrenched on Pandora Avenue for several years “has now disappeared, essentially,” which has made a huge difference for clients who rely on the food services at Our Place.[/size]
 
https://www.timescol...encies-12012658
 
 
 
Is this true?  Somebody said they were at Big O Tire the other day and it was the worst they had ever seen.

I was at big o just yesterday. Same as always. A couple passed out on the corner where Ming’s was, and when I went to get the van across and up the street, there was someone in the parking lot milling about being watched very closely by staff. I walked in and the fellow says he was just admiring my car. He shuffled on pretty quick.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

$571,000 bachelor suites in Duncan. 

 

Meanwhile the very mosy expensive condo listed in Greater Duncan today is a 2-bed, 2-bath 1450 sq. ft. unit.  At $559,000.

 

[aastra]

 

I walked in and the fellow says he was just admiring my car.

 

VV forumers will tend to be vulnerable to the tactic "I was just admiring your [blank]"

 

Car, dog, hair, shirt, eyes, sandwich, voice... whatever. It's called plausible deniability.

[aastra]

Pecs, biceps, abs... the list goes on and on. Be careful out there.

[aastra]

Sometimes I find myself envying Mike K. in this regard.

[lanforod]

Sometimes I find myself envying Mike K. in this regard.

Now I know you’re joking. Unless you’re talking about the chrome dome.

[Victoria Watcher]

Unhoused numbers in Cowichan surging; more expected during FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver

Read more at: https://wltribune.co...s-in-vancouver/

[Mike K.]

It was blamed on the Liberals back in 2010.

Now it’s the NDP’s turn

“It happens every summer in every community,” Horn said.

But Horn said the FIFA World Cup games that are scheduled to be played in Vancouver in June and July could add even more to the influx of unhoused and street people than usual in the Cowichan community. He said that during the Winter Olympics that were hosted by Vancouver in 2010, city authorities were put under a lot of pressure to ensure the city looked “clean and happy” while it was in the international spotlight.

“That pressure pushed a lot of people off the streets of the city during the Olympics and they flooded into Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay and all regions of the Island, and that could happen again,” Horn said.

“We have been talking about developing operational plans to respond if we get a flood of folks coming that are displaced by events in the Lower Mainland. What we’ll get in the Cowichan Valley remains to be seen, but people can arrive here as it is a free country.” Horn said local authorities are keeping a sharp eye on the unhoused and others who are coming into the community in regards to what are they all about and why are they here, and they pay close attention to the new ones.

- https://wltribune.co...s-in-vancouver/