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This week’s episode features a discussion about homelessness, and in particular how to approach and create meaningful housing solutions with support services for people in an encampment. Episode guests include:
Janice Abbott, CEO, Atira Women’s Resource Society
Heidi Hartman, Executive Director, Supportive Housing and Homelessness, BC Housing
Janice and Heidi dig into why it’s important to take a person-centred approach to encampments and why developing relationships with people is critical to better understand what the individual needs in order to get them into housing with the right supports.
Learn more about BC Housing: bchousing.org
This week’s episode features a discussion about homelessness, and in particular how to approach and create meaningful housing solutions with support services for people in an encampment. Episode guests include:
Janice and Heidi dig into why it’s important to take a person-centred approach to encampments and why developing relationships with people is critical to better understand what the individual needs in order to get them into housing with the right supports.
Learn more about BC Housing: bchousing.org
British Columbia is in the grips of a housing affordability crisis decades in the making. The Province has an ambitious plan to tackle the crisis through the largest investment in housing affordability in B.C.’s history. Tasked with building tens of thousands of homes in hundreds of communities is BC Housing, the agency responsible for developing, managing, and administering a wide range of subsidized housing and homelessness services across the province. BC Housing doesn’t do this alone, they work with hundreds of partners. In this podcast, you’ll hear from those tackling the crisis head on.