More than likely in the downtown core where it should not be placed.

Homeless people tend to frequent the downtown core. Shouldn’t services for them be located where they are?

The problem with the downtown core is just that, outreach services are all concentrated in the core. Homeless people don’t need to be in the downtown core, there’s nothing to do downtown but to hover around the same issues that my have lead them to there current situations.

Housing and support services should be away from enabling influences, like alcohol, drug use and sexual exploitation. The men’s shelter is subject to drive up visits from every low life drug dealer in town. Alcohol abuse is just a few steps away, regardless of what we are told by the group providing the “outreach” services.

A men’s outreach service would be better served outside of the central core on some land with space where actual healing can take place. No outside influences and no distractions from the drunken girl friend screaming she needs money. Downtown is rife with everyone providing outreach, so it’s a circle of folks going from one place to another and none of them really changing the behavior that may have lead to them being there in the first place.

Men’s outreach service farther away from the central core include a shuttle service? Like moths attracted to a flame. remove the flame. Moths don’t die, they just move elsewhere.

Just wait until they open an Insite safe injection clinic. Then life downtown will get really interesting? Can’t happen here? Don’t bet on it.

“Housing and support services should be away from enabling influences, like alcohol, drug use and sexual exploitation”

yeah! Somewhere like Haldi! oh wait…