has been issuing news releases in recent months, urging neighbours to voice their objections to city hall for the project described in one statement as “a recipe for failure and chaos.”, sent Thursday, quotes local mental-health and addictions expert Julian Somers criticizing the proposed Kitsilano building as “the wrong model in the wrong place.”
Somers said it would be better to have roughly five per cent of units in several big developments going forward — including in Kitsilano and neighbourhoods around there — reserved as deeply affordable homes for people exiting homelessness.Article content Darrell Burnham, CEO of Coast Mental Health, a non-profit group operating 54 facilities around Metro Vancouver serving more than 5,000 people with mental-health issues, said congregate buildings “can be very successful if designed well.”
Dave_Eby might be about to discover how fed up his constituents are with ‘done deals’. bcpoli vanpoli Here is a more comprehensive reply to the article by fumano
Can you explain why so many residential fires are now being investigated as targeted now? What is going on?
We need more social housing here. There should be a discussion about using the Catholic Church’s properties nearby as reparations for the decades upon decades of residential abuse.
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Coast Mental Health cites its Dunbar Apartments as an example of congregate supportive housing that works. It's 3-4 storeys (not 13) & serves less than half the of residents (51) as Arbutis proposal (129). Fumano covered its (re)construction woes in 2019
Basically OPS yaletown next to an elementary school and playground… “it’s not a safe injection site, addicts and people with mental illness will only to shoot fentanyl and meth inside with staff watching… big difference!”🤔 Why not build it for low income seniors and families?
CEO of housing operator 'let's not make perfect the enemy of good' Good= Suffer in congregate housing with no path forward, but we get some sweet govt $$ Perfect= Reduce deaths and move people out of the cycle of addiction. If that's perfection, I say that's the only goal.
Yep, sounds like the province to willfully ignore the will of the people.