[dammage79]

Yep, pretty much every outreach center is inside a two block radius on Pandora. Between Vancouver and Douglas. And a couple more on Johnson between Douglas and Quadra.

It's a very compact zone to try and manage such a large population of homeless and addicts. And those places are always always stretched beyond acceptable limits of their resources.

Post pandemic there's been a few more locations added out towards uptown but it's still over run. I'd make a blind estimate that less than 50% of the at risk population are getting adequate care and housing. And they pretty much taken up all the old hotels the government bought up during the pandemic. Which I think was around 7 motels/hotels within the area of uptown and downtown proper?

I cannot recall what Langford has but I think it's inadequate as well and Esquimalt seems pretty contained . Perhaps the most contained neighborhood outside of the upper end ones.

When I was living in my car as a working homeless person I never strayed close to those places. I felt those resources were better served towards those that really truly needed them.