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Originally Posted by 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.

Sounds like John Carpenter was onto something and we should just isolate Vancouver Island as some sort of rehab/penal colony 'Escape from New York' style.