Agency will count the homeless on Gabriola Island, reports the Daily News: A Gabriola social agency plans to take a census of the island’s homeless population that it hopes will help guide future land-use decisions. People for a Health Community on Gabriola Island, which provides a food bank and other social services, expects to soon [...]
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Here’s a shelter that could help homeless Haitians (or, um, homeless people on Gabriola). It’s cheap to build, and you can make one yourself. It’s a hexayurt. Wired.com explains. With just $100 worth of plywood and screws, almost anyone can build a shelter known as a Hexayurt that can last three years and possibly even [...]
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See those sticks, carefully wedged between the two trees? They make a nice seat. Then there’s the ring of stones on the ground in front of the seat — a campfire circle, it seems. A bit further along there are clothes draped on a tree. Pillows and bedding hang from a log, probably to air [...]
The Gabriola Island Affordable Housing Assessment Report (.pdf) is now on the Islands Trust website for you to read. It’s 54 pages long, so of course it covers lots of stuff. The part that makes me sad is this section on homelessness: As in many places throughout BC the homeless population on Gabriola is hidden. [...]
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Now here’s a fascinating article from the Times Online: Living without money. Twenty-two years ago Heidemarie Schwermer, a middle-aged secondary school teacher just emerging from a difficult marriage, moved with her two children from the village of Lueneburg to the city of Dortmund, in the Ruhr area of Germany, whose homeless population, she immediately noticed, [...]
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If you hike in the Gabriola woods every day, and if you go to all sorts of obscure places that are off the trail, you eventually find the places where people are living in the middle of the forest. There aren’t any obvious trails going to this campsite, so the chances of somebody stumbling across [...]
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