SURVEY'S PRINCIPLE RESEARCHER SPEAKS

Only 3% of the surveyed population do not want permanent housing.
17% of homeless people have jobs, 32% are engaged in non-traditional work (e.g. “binning”), and 42% want help finding a job or a better job.
78% identified the lack of affordable housing as their main barrier to being housed.
Homelessness is not imported: 73% are from the CRD and 16% from elsewhere in BC, mostly Duncan and Vancouver; only 11% are from elsewhere.
People are homeless throughout the region: 73% were from the four core municipalities, 4% from the Western Communities, 3% from the Saanich Peninsula, and 4% from Salt Spring; a further 16% did not disclose their municipality.

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Community Council Researcher Jane Worton said; “The survey provided a wealth of detailed information about what is needed by people in our community who are inadequately housed, It also dispelled some common myths about those who are homeless.”

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