Report offers recommendations to stop homelessness

Report offers recommendations to stop homelessness

February 27, 2024 6:58 pm PST.

Community organizers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have put forward 42 recommendations on how to stop the increase in numbers of unhoused people in B.C. Their top priorities include preserving SROs and modular housing. Kier Junos reports.

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