Despite a letter from the @bccla, I’ve been told that this morning unhoused people on Pandora St were woken up by VicPD & Bylaw officers redistributing the public safety ministerial order & verbally issuing new enforcement deadlines.

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I’ve heard reports that there are no hotel rooms remaining. What constitutes “adequate” housing? I’ve also been told that people don’t want to go into temporary situations that disrupt the peer support networks that they already have in place.

Ppl were given rubbermaid bins for belongings. Whatever else they can’t carry has been thrown out. Sometimes they have been paid $20 per tent. Others nothing b/c tent was taken while they weren’t there. Is that a “comprehensive plan” for the “care of their personal property”?

Friday morning, the boss of HL Waste Disposal Services, which BC Housing contracted, was removed from the Pandora area for getting into an altercation w/someone who had decorated the fence surrounding them. Why are ppl who have no training w/marginalized people doing this work?

Speaking of fencing, I also had a camp resident tell me that someone died of an overdose because they couldn’t get to them in time - because of the blue fencing caging people in. Currently that fencing is being moved around to close off *any* open space where tents have been.

Meanwhile, Victoria residents mad that they can’t go camping at a provincial park tried to organize a “Protest Beacon Hill Park being used as a homeless camp” camp-in b/c if they can’t camp, why do homeless people... get to... camp?! Okay, Don.

People who care about other people, poverty, homelessness, addiction and harm reduction, displacement, etc. should be watching what’s happening in Victoria closely & critically.