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$4.7 million price tag to enforce daytime sheltering in Victoria, sweeps possibly deadly

The City of Victoria's recent sweeps of Pandora Avenue are being called deadly by advocates. Is more enforcement really what's needed?

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Seattle city council is probably about to do some bullshit.

I'm still a bit dazed from the getting assaulted thing, would normally try and give public comment, but I'm really not feeling up to much rn.

People waiting for the meeting report a notable increase in police presence. Folks who spoke last week say they were indentified by cops and followed around while waiting.

They are just calling the meeting to order now.

https://www.youtube.com/live/GqPV4DwnxGA

#Seattle #SOAP #I137 #socialhousingnow

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Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

"Give more respect to those unhoused
I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

Chris Holiday

Victoria"

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters-sept-16-facing-financial-disaster-lightstations-not-lifeboats-respect-for-the-unhoused-9525284

#YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

Letters Sept. 16: Facing financial disaster; lightstations not lifeboats; respect for the unhoused

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Luxembourg: Poverty in Europe's wealthiest country | DW Documentary

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Destroying Tent Cities is Inhumane! We need Socialized housing now!

#HousingCrisis #socialism #SocialHousingNow

Weiner and Newsom gutted #CEQA instead of solving the problem of private unaffordable housing: luxury units with amenities that students say they don’t need and increasing pressure on the cost of other #student #housing in the #private #rental market. In many cases #studentdebt load is as much about housing costs as it is about #tuition.
#regulatorycapture #SocialHousingNow #RightToHousing

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/30/student-accommodation-university-housing-crisis

Student housing used to be affordable. Why has it become an ‘asset class’ to enrich the already wealthy?

We need action to curb this exploitation of young people, says Leilani Farha, global director of the housing initiative The Shift

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