Thunder Bay’s ten-part Human Rights-Based Community Action Plan passed unanimously, but not without debate.
THUNDER BAY – City council voted unanimously to approve a ten-part human rights-based community action plan for responding to homeless encampments.
One option at Kam River Heritage Park off Syndicate Avenue would provide space for 100 units with an estimated construction cost between $5.9 million and $6.8 million and annual operating costs between $1.5 million and $2.5 million. The current plan is for the city to fund the project upfront from the reserve fund and the tax-base support while pursuing provincial and federal grants to recoup what was spent, a gamble Collins says is necessary to get the work started quickly.
“If we have sufficient indoor shelter options that are accessible, and if we have designated through by-laws and all the necessary control measures, the up-to-three outdoor encampments, we will be well within our rights as a municipality, based on the current case-law, to move people along,” said Collin.
“It's not really a fair way to tax people, and yet we're loading more social services and social housing onto the property tax base here,” Bentz said.
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