Work to help everyone living on the block find housing by the end of the year is now in jeopardy, says Our Place CEO
About a dozen tents had returned to Pandora Avenue Friday morning after a massive cleanup the previous day that saw the majority of people sheltering on the 900-block dispersed and their belongings impounded.
Victoria bylaw officers spent Thursday morning clearing the block, removing garbage and impounding people’s belongings. By the afternoon, roughly 40 to 50 tents had been reduced to three. “It looks like a more typical day of bylaw interactions. They didn’t appear to be, when I was there at least, removing tents in the way that they were yesterday,” he said.
Staff at SOLID Outreach, which operates a drop-in program and a supervised-consumption service and has outreach workers on the block, have been trying to help people store their belongings after the cleanup, said Fred Cameron, SOLID’s senior manager in charge of housing.
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