There is overwhelming evidence that in and around the province’s supportive housing facilities, there is too much crime and disorder.
The day after International Women’s Day, six Victoria councillors and the mayor, four men and three women, were more concerned about the fragile ego of one of the most privileged men in our country than they were about a businesswoman who has been threatened with rape.
We gave direct quotes of Police Chief Del Manak from a Times Colonist article noting how VicPD has seized drugs, weapons and cash from one of the most notorious supportive housing facilities at 844 Johnson and he said it’s “extremely troubling.” Our motion stemmed from a discussion I had with the owner of a café who literally has to close her café an hour early each day because a man who was kicked out of a provincial supportive housing facility, but still hanging around the neighbourhood, told her “I will be waiting for you at the end of your shift and I will rape you.”
When you put too many people with addictions and mental-health problems into one facility, and your government doesn’t do the basic homework to find out if some of these people are dangerous criminals, then you put the other most vulnerable people inside these facilities at risk. Victoria’s police chief has given us loads of stats showing how dangerous some of these supportive housing facilities are, and for some reason that has no tangible impact on your policies.
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