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  1. homelesslaw.org/jvgp-scotus-de

    On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that cities can enforce laws that criminalize public camping and sleeping without violating the Eighth Amendment.

    The 6–3 decision means that localities can fine, ticket, or arrest people experiencing homelessness, even when there is not enough shelter.

    #Homelesslivesmatter #EndHomelessnessNow #PovertyKills #apathykills #poverty #mentalhealth #activism #advocacy

  2. Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

    "Give more respect to those unhoused
    I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

    I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

    Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

    These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

    Chris Holiday

    Victoria"

    timescolonist.com/opinion/lett

    #YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

  3. Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

    "Give more respect to those unhoused
    I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

    I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

    Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

    These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

    Chris Holiday

    Victoria"

    timescolonist.com/opinion/lett

    #YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

  4. Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

    "Give more respect to those unhoused
    I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

    I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

    Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

    These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

    Chris Holiday

    Victoria"

    timescolonist.com/opinion/lett

    #YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

  5. Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

    "Give more respect to those unhoused
    I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

    I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

    Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

    These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

    Chris Holiday

    Victoria"

    timescolonist.com/opinion/lett

    #YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

  6. Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

    "Give more respect to those unhoused
    I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

    I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

    Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

    These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

    Chris Holiday

    Victoria"

    timescolonist.com/opinion/lett

    #YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

  7. Driving from dentist, earlier. Houseless encampments on Pandora Ave.

    Video audio transcription:

    Pandora.
    People need homes. House the homeless. House the homeless. In such a bourgeois, rich city and a rich country, people should have homes.

    #VictoriaBC #HousingFirst #HumanRights #HomelessLivesMatter #HouseTheHomeless #BreakTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #YYJpoli #DontCriminalizeHomelessness #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #CommunityMatters #BeingPoorIsNotACrime #CDNpoli

  8. Driving from dentist, earlier. Houseless encampments on Pandora Ave.

    Video audio transcription:

    Pandora.
    People need homes. House the homeless. House the homeless. In such a bourgeois, rich city and a rich country, people should have homes.

    #VictoriaBC #HousingFirst #HumanRights #HomelessLivesMatter #HouseTheHomeless #BreakTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #YYJpoli #DontCriminalizeHomelessness #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #CommunityMatters #BeingPoorIsNotACrime #CDNpoli

  9. Driving from dentist, earlier. Houseless encampments on Pandora Ave.

    Video audio transcription:

    Pandora.
    People need homes. House the homeless. House the homeless. In such a bourgeois, rich city and a rich country, people should have homes.

    #VictoriaBC #HousingFirst #HumanRights #HomelessLivesMatter #HouseTheHomeless #BreakTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #YYJpoli #DontCriminalizeHomelessness #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #CommunityMatters #BeingPoorIsNotACrime #CDNpoli

  10. Driving from dentist, earlier. Houseless encampments on Pandora Ave.

    Video audio transcription:

    Pandora.
    People need homes. House the homeless. House the homeless. In such a bourgeois, rich city and a rich country, people should have homes.

    #VictoriaBC #HousingFirst #HumanRights #HomelessLivesMatter #HouseTheHomeless #BreakTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #YYJpoli #DontCriminalizeHomelessness #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #CommunityMatters #BeingPoorIsNotACrime #CDNpoli

  11. Driving from dentist, earlier. Houseless encampments on Pandora Ave.

    Video audio transcription:

    Pandora.
    People need homes. House the homeless. House the homeless. In such a bourgeois, rich city and a rich country, people should have homes.

    #VictoriaBC #HousingFirst #HumanRights #HomelessLivesMatter #HouseTheHomeless #BreakTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #YYJpoli #DontCriminalizeHomelessness #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #CommunityMatters #BeingPoorIsNotACrime #CDNpoli

  12. #HouseTheHouseless #HousingFirst

    My dentist's office is 2 blocks away from the street encampments on Pandora in downtown #VictoriaBC. My dentist has provided a lot of free dental services to many of the #houseless folks who live in tents on this busy street. I wish everyone was as kind & compassionate.

    #YYJ is a bourgeois government city & capital city of BC. There's so many empty buildings all around downtown core & also around the surrounding municipalities - which could be used as housing for many houseles individuals & houseless families.

    Much of the so called new 'affordable housing' developments being built/built very recently are totally out of range for many folks who aren't even houseless. There's more than a few houseless folks who have either PT or FT jobs too. #StopHomelessnessStigma & #StopHouselessStereotypes 👍

    Please keep putting pressure on your local, provincial & federal governments to fund more housing for houseless citizens.

    Please don't be cruel to houseless folks & help them, if you can. Almost everyone is only a few paycheques or one horrible life changing accident away from being houseless.

    Be kind 💗 You should never be looking down on anyone with less than you - unless you're giving them a hand up🙌

    #YYJpoli #HousingCrisis #PoorPeopleMatter #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BritishColumbia #Canada #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpTheHomeless #BeAKindCitizen #HumanRights #BeAYimbyNotANimby