No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

▶
no society can understand itself without looking at its
SMART_READER_LITE
LIVE PREVIEW

No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Mar 05, 2024 468 likes •710 views

No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. Gabor Mat Genesis July 3, 2003 Vancouver Whistler win 2010 Olympic bid - Sea to Sky Highway Improvement Project Real Estate values double in a year+ and

slide-1
SLIDE 1

“No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.” –Gabor Maté

slide-2
SLIDE 2

Genesis

  • July 3, 2003 Vancouver Whistler win 2010 Olympic bid
  • Sea to Sky Highway Improvement Project
  • Real Estate values double in a year+ and continued to rise until

about 2008/09

  • Downtown revitalization/gentrification result in demolition of

most of the affordable SROs

Result: Emergence of Homelessness in Squamish

slide-3
SLIDE 3

Squamish Helping Hands Society-2006

pop 15,000 – estimate: 100+ homeless Citizen-led initiative: request to convert an empty municipal fire hall in downtown into an emergency weather shelter.

slide-4
SLIDE 4
  • SHHS- provides

lunch, showers, laundry and internet 3 days a week.

  • Volunteers

Feb 2007

slide-5
SLIDE 5
  • Extreme weather

emergency shelter

  • 15 beds
  • Incl. dinner and

breakfast.

  • 5 day-a-week

Daily Drop-in centre.

  • Volunteers

Nov 2007

slide-6
SLIDE 6
  • 24/7 emergency

shelter/drop-in centre.

  • Paid staff
  • BC Housing

Funded

  • DOS Supported

July 2009

slide-7
SLIDE 7

Home Instead:

  • 4 Sober living

beds for people transitioning to employment and independent

  • living. BC Housing
  • 5 VCH/Mental

Health transition beds

2011-2013

Required a rezoning from Council. Unanimously supported

slide-8
SLIDE 8
slide-9
SLIDE 9

Most recent stats (2015)

  • .34% Squamish pop. considered homeless.

(ie .29% Vancouver. Kamloops .11)

  • Males Aged 55+ and Males aged 18-25 largest

sub groups

  • 135% increase in women accessing emergency

housing between 2014 and 2015.

slide-10
SLIDE 10

Driving factors

  • Continuous 0% rental vacancy
  • Rapid community growth
  • Transient / temporary residents
  • Tourism / hospitality sector growth
  • Lower incomes
slide-11
SLIDE 11
slide-12
SLIDE 12

Community Collabortion

Squamish Integrated Housing Solutions Group

– Local collaborative non-profit housing and related

  • rganizations
  • Squamish Helping Hand Society
  • Squamish Senior Citizens Home Society
  • Howe Sound Women’s Centre Society
  • Sea to Sky Community Services Society
  • Vancouver Coastal Health
  • School District #48
  • Sea to Sky Sea to Sky Division of Family Practice
slide-13
SLIDE 13

SQUAMISH INTEGRATED HOUSING SOLUTIONS GROUP

ü Council to pass a motion to adopt a HOUSING FIRST Community Strategy ü Policy and enforcement of short-term rentals ü Expanded use of Affordable Housing Reserve to help support rent bank, secondary suite incentives, development of cooperative property management structure ü Zoning / density bonus solutions for below market/core rental housing needs that are flexible and tailored to reflect changing needs ü Donate & acquire land for core rental housing projects ü Ensure no net loss of core rental housing, rental housing ü Research & data to support future housing projections

slide-14
SLIDE 14
  • People die prematurely: 18 deaths noted within an 18

month span (SHHS - Jan 2015- April 2016)

  • Homelessness is expensive: Per Person it costs $40-

$50K for emergency housing compared to $22-28K with a Housing First strategy.

  • The average annual cost of homelessness for a

community is estimated at $9.5M (Affordable Housing Plan BC)

THE COST OF INACTION

slide-15
SLIDE 15
  • Mental health and addiction issues increase

significantly for those who are homeless leading to increased reactionary costs in the provision of Health, Criminal Justice & Social Services

  • The problem compounds: We are headed for a

further housing gap of 100 – 150 core rental housing units by 2021

THE COST OF INACTION

slide-16
SLIDE 16

SHHS Under One Roof

slide-17
SLIDE 17
  • 2016 - Council adopts Housing First Principles.
  • 2016 - Council offers District-owned land for

SHHS Under One Roof

  • DOS initiates a rezoning of our lands
  • Council unanimously supports rezoning July 2017

Under One Roof

slide-18
SLIDE 18
  • DOS Signs MOU with SHHS and BC Housing
  • DOS Invests ~$650,000 to make lands

developable

  • DOS waves fees: DCCs, permit fees etc
  • BC Housing commits to ~$12million in

funding

Under One Roof

slide-19
SLIDE 19
slide-20
SLIDE 20

Under One Roof

Broke ground Sept 2018

Emergency Shelter Low Barrier Housing Transitional Living Recovery - SHHS Program 4 Independence Affordable Independent Living

https://www.squamishhelpinghands.ca/programs-services/under-one-roof/

slide-21
SLIDE 21
  • Community Champions
  • Work closely with Non-

profits and BC Housing

  • Unanimous support of

Council - political courage

  • Brought municipal lands

to the table both in old firehall and for Under One Roof

Recipe for Success

slide-22
SLIDE 22

Thank You