Victoria BC Homelessness: An Exploration

A short video about the overall situation of homeless people in Victoria, BC from the point of view of care providers. Does the 2010 olympics in Vancouver affect care for the homeless? Does the presence of the homeless affect Victoria's tourism, and does it even matter? Are there plans in place to help the homeless situation?

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[Normalman50]

My wife and I retired to Victoria, but we left after two years. The overall poverty, lack of employment opportunitys, petty crime, and the large number of homeless people, drove us back to Ontario. The government of Victoria are just a bunch of old ignornat Conrad Black types, and they care nothing for the citizens or the homeless. That city has even squashed any ideas of constructing more subsidized housing, but promote building more golf courses for the upper crusters.

[IsaacLoops]

you are fucking ignorant..i lived on the streets for a year......you dont have a clue what youre talking about....go live on the streets for a while and then make your assumptions.....prick

[jayhawk88z]

@befranklintoo thats very true

[jayhawk88z]

@IsaacLoops that was very rude

[WAYT00Much]

That man is an idiot!!!

[Pinkerfluff]

why are there horrible comments on this video? I can understand that if you are homeless and are upset with this topic, but what about the whole massive program set up in Canada to start bringing down the numbers of homeless and rehabilitate them into cleaner environments :)

[Morningchild69]

sad that all you got is monry when ppl on the street need it more and yet you talk about the voice PLZ

[Morningchild69]

your an asshole

[befranklintoo]

the selfish canadian unions make it hard for self employment.

[34gingersnaps]

i aagain have to say i was once on the streets of victoria and its still home to mee i visit and i talk to soo many people out there on the street more than i doo with the "people" of vic are rude homeless people kick butt <3 much love an dgod bless

[34gingersnaps]

@34gingersnaps just adding more too it and with the education like come on the goverment is tryin to push people to work but wheres the education at in all this if ya want people of welfare i suggest u let people go to school but we borrow the money to goo and have to pay it back why is soo different form grade school really i battled with keeping my job as mentions and it pushed me towards the system once again soo it becomes a cycle that never ends

[34gingersnaps]

i totaly agree with this video as i am low -income single parent of 4 kids was workin but was not makin enough to pay rent as well and losing hours weekly it pushed me to quit my job after searching and searching for more work were there was not unless i had a degree of soome sort its a shame were as people i think would love to be educated as much as possible for any job they wanna do