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How much effort is given to homelessness prevention? How many on our streets, are there because their families lacked the tools they needed, when they were needed to prevent much of the harm that follows from addiction? Many of those in the grips of addiction NEED to be placed under guardianship. Many have income that is adequate to meet their basic needs, but is diverted from those purposes to feed a drug habit. Enabling trustees to ensure that rent/food/phone is paid before meth/fentanyl/benzos are bought could prevent much of the harm - especially as it would limit how much money is left over for the addict to buy drugs with.

 

Instead - the addict often becomes homeless, because they refuse to even feed/clothe/house themselves in priority to their drug habit. They fall into dependency on the public to meet all their needs, and now have convinced the public to even provide them with the drugs while refusing any and all treatment. Rights, unlimited, without responsibility or obligation. 

[Victoria Watcher]

“We need more shelter spaces and supportive housing,” McKenzie said. Many of the people still attached to Pandora have been offered shelter but have either refused it or do not wish to follow the rules once they’re there.

 

McKenzie shortlisted the reasons some people might reject a shelter offer. They include concern for personal safety, the fact they may be hoarders who don’t want to lose their possessions, or it may be because they may be “deep into their addiction” and  “disruptive to others when they want to top up at night.”

 

“The people on Pandora are the most broken of the broken,” McKenzie said. "Getting them into low-barrier or supportive housing or even an emergency shelter is always a challenge.”

 

 

 

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, Today, 10:10 PM.