Federal Housing Advocate Marie-Josée Houle condemned the City of Prince George’s plan to centralize homeless campers at a single site.
Federal Housing Advocate Marie-Josée Houle publicly condemned the City of Prince George’s plan to concentrate homeless campers in the city at the Lower Patricia encampment, named Moccasin Flats by residents.
“I am deeply concerned to hear about the city of Prince George’s dangerous plan to create a centralized, police-monitored homeless encampment at #MoccasinFlats. The proposed plan will violate Indigenous rights and the human rights of people experiencing homelessness,” Houle tweeted. “Forced, prison-like settings for people experiencing homelessness have no place in Canada.”
“When I visited Moccasin Flats in August and spoke with residents, many of the conversations here were around the lack of promised amenities for the encampment, personal safety… and the failures to follow up on the Calls for Justice of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. These concerns must be addressed,” Houle tweeted.
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