City is offering province $250,000 to jump-start next phase of housing efforts
The mayor of Victoria plans to seek a meeting with the provincial housing minister to ask for more action on supportive housing for the homeless in the city.
Depending on the outcome of that meeting, Helps has been authorized to offer $250,000 toward the next phase of housing help. Dubow said it was a small step to explore more capacity for the unsheltered. “It all comes down to how do we extend access to dignity, quality of life and well-being?”Helps noted the need for complex care is acute in the city. A hundred spaces set to open in January is “really good news,” she said. “It would be better if it came sooner, but I think that’s a good start.
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