Housing Crises? Or addiction crises? Or affordability crises?
Tomorrow night April 8th 7pm United Church
“I have just finished listening to the new book Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis by CBC Broadcaster Gregor Craigie. This book is available at all local bookstores.
Chapter 7 Is on the Cowichan Valley and Duncan. I would ask you to either get a copy of this book, or download the Audio Book. PLEASE listen to Chapter 7.
Chapter 7 tells of our local North Cowichan, Duncan and CVRD housing crisis, the death at the A & W parking lot in 2022, our lack of warming shelter, Mayor Staples, and our Sleeping Cabins on Trunk Road.
Next Monday April 8. at 7:00 pm, The author, Gregor Craigie, along with Victoria Journalist, Jack Knox AND Mayor Michelle Staples are speaking on our Housing Crisis at the Duncan United Church Hall.
The Cowichan Housing Association is inviting you, and all our Area Directors and local leaders to attend this talk.
Tickets are only $5.00 and can be purchased at Volume One Books in Duncan, or purchased at the door of the Duncan United Church Hall - 246 Ingram Street, Duncan.
Please come. We CAN solve this Housing Crisis ... together.
Sincerely,”
We thought this email from a member was important enough to share. At many meetings locally they speak about the “unhoused”. and seem to skirt the underlying issues by calling everyone “unhoused” instead of addicts that need real treatment options. The CVRD has removed bus stop enclosures with these same excuses without addressing the real issues. Is there a housing crises? Or an affordability crises? Or a mental health crises? Maybe these answers will be addressed in this meeting.
Sincerely,
Team COAP
Very important meeting for certain! It is something that is needing to be discussed in all our Canadian towns - will the meeting be accessible online live or recorded?
Respect n share water. Give everybody a piece of land. Build villages with shared facilities ( https://www.thevenusproject.com). [ So many houses occupied few months a year!. Some always empty!]. Teach kids spirituality (instead of materialism). Collectivism. How to share. ( And inculcate "a sense of moral responsability" to adults ;) The structure of the economic system is the main cause ( Remember, politics' goal is to protect the (S). A documentary online soon : Zeitgeist Requiem (2024) by Peter Joseph.