Marie-Josée Houle, who was appointed by the federal government to the job this year, will visit Victoria, Prince George and Vancouver for two weeks starting next week
She said she wants to learn about systemic housing challenges including the cost of housing, homelessness and encampments, and Indigenous housing. She said B.C. came to her attention because Vancouver, touted as the most expensive to live in Canada, is also the hot spot for many housing-related crises, including homelessness and opioid overdose deaths.Ms. Houle said she is “incredibly distressed” with seeing how encampments in Vancouver are being dealt with.
Murray Rankin and the advocate. Ms. Houle said she is prioritizing her trip to engage to rights holders, but there’s an open invitation for a virtual meeting with duty bearers that include Mr. Rankin. “It’s obviously a systemic failure that just becomes very cyclical,” Ms. York said, “so people are very often homeless [and] are finding it very difficult to get out of those circumstances.”
Fran Hunt-Jinnouchi, executive director of the Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness, said her goal is to discuss culturally supportive housing for Indigenous people. She said her group has piloted and implemented such programs by incorporating land-based healing and other culturally appropriate approaches. The results are promising, she said, though she added there is much work to be done.
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