As with communities across B.C. and across Canada, homelessness is a challenge for the City of Courtenay. This has many causes and will require a combination of actions by differing levels of government. Many people are unhoused because of health challenges like addiction and mental illness. These people require support from the provincial health care system, particularly … [Read more...] about Will Cole-Hamilton on Homelessness
Homelessness
Bob Wells on Homelessness
Over the past four years in the City of Courtenay, we have added 1,200 new units, over 80 units of subsidized and supportive units (Braidwood and The Junction), opened the Connect Warming Centre as a place for the unhoused to go for support, and opened the Ocean Front Village adding 126 units of publicly funded seniors housing. Yet due to the extreme escalating costs of … [Read more...] about Bob Wells on Homelessness