EDITORIAL: Homelessness isn’t going to disappear

Interesting editorial from Victoria News in response to the Coalition’s recent survey.

Although we might want to wish it away, homelessness is here to stay, at least in the foreseeable future. In an ideal world things would be different, but homelessness is a problem the world over, not an issue that Greater Victoria has to deal with alone. Consequently, we were taken aback last week when it was announced that more than one-third of Victoria and Esquimalt residents queried in the recent Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness survey say they don’t believe that homelessness is an issue in their community. Their views were mirrored in other Capital Region municipalities.

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Source: Victoria News