No one wants to see the encampment on the block gone more than the people who are living in it, says Our Place CEO
Our Place Society hopes to help everyone currently living on the 900-block of Pandora to get off the street by the end of the year.
Our Place’s street outreach team recently spent two weeks surveying everyone living on the block, asking them what it would take to get them off the street. Daly called lack of affordable housing in Victoria a “massive barrier,” saying those living on the block “simply do not have the income to pay for rent in our city.”How they get off the block will look different for each person, said Daly. Some have said they want a shelter space, while others want transitional housing, detox treatment or to get into a market rental.
“We know what they want. We know what it will take for them to get inside. We just need those that have the resources to make that possible to come forward and work with us on it.” The group, Housing Justice Project, released a report calling for the creation of 2,000 deeply subsidized net new units each year over the next decade to end mass homelessness in the region.
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