Homeless in Abbotsford, BC
I DO NOT, HAVE NOT, WOULD NOT ever suggest throwing money at a problem. I am a REALIST, believing in examining a problem to understand what the situation IS. I am not an Ideologue who, wearing the blinders of ideology, looks at a situation and sees what they want to see, not what really is. There is NO perfect solution. A system dealing with people demands flexibility and denies neat, easy answers. Rigidly applying Ideology guarantees failure. How I came to homelessness: click Backstory below.
Boredometown - as acknowledged by all BC.
Kevin Gillies is quite correct “What we need here – dare I say it – is a little more nightlife”.
Regrettably for we citizens of “Boredomtown” and our pocketbooks, council refuses to see this reality because they do not want any nightlife they do not approve of. Unfortunately they disapprove of any nightlife that falls into the fun category.
When columnist Ed Willes wrote “… as thrilling as a weekend in Abbotsford” he was making reference to an NHL playoff hockey game being played in a huge arena. Abbotsford can spend its current $108.6+ million, plus $100”s of millions more and it will not change its province wide status as “Boredomtown”.
NHL playoff hockey games are not what make Vancouver or Montreal fun cities to live in; it is the day in and day out availability of entertaining nightlife.
Which is why come the end of hockey season Vancouver will still be fun and even once all the construction for Plan A is complete Abbotsford will still be the butt of hockey columnist’s humour and boredom will still be defined by BC residents as “a weekend in Abbotsford”.
Thinking about it, those who claim Plan A will make Abbotsford a fun place may have a point, just not quite the point they think. It may just be that the best chance we have to stop being Boredomtown lies in the effect of the huge costs and tax burden of Plan A.
In an ironic twist of fate, faced with a desperate need of cash flow from new sources to avoid cutting more City services and maintenance, a financial crisis or astronomical (20%) tax hikes, the lure of casino $$$ may prove irresistible to City Hall. Once started down that slippery slope who knows where the unintended fallout of Plan A could lead – theatre? Or – gasp – a comedy club? Later club hours and new clubs? Even normal city nightlife?
Because in the end fun is about a city’s attitude and behaviours and until Abbotsford City Hall changes its attitudes and behaviours, or voters change those who inhabit City Hall, Abbotsford will not offer the entertainment choices that make a City come alive, hum and be a fun place to live.
Kevin Gillies is quite correct “What we need here – dare I say it – is a little more nightlife”.Regrettably for we citizens of “Boredomtown” and our pocketbooks, council refuses to see this reality because they do not want any nightlife they do not approve of. Unfortunately they disapprove of any nightlife that falls into the fun category.
When columnist Ed Willes wrote “… as thrilling as a weekend in Abbotsford” he was making reference to an NHL playoff hockey game being played in a huge arena. Abbotsford can spend its current $108.6+ million, plus $100”s of millions more and it will not change its province wide status as “Boredomtown”.
NHL playoff hockey games are not what make Vancouver or Montreal fun cities to live in; it is the day in and day out availability of entertaining nightlife.
Which is why come the end of hockey season Vancouver will still be fun and even once all the construction for Plan A is complete Abbotsford will still be the butt of hockey columnist’s humour and boredom will still be defined by BC residents as “a weekend in Abbotsford”.
Thinking about it, those who claim Plan A will make Abbotsford a fun place may have a point, just not quite the point they think. It may just be that the best chance we have to stop being Boredomtown lies in the effect of the huge costs and tax burden of Plan A.
In an ironic twist of fate, faced with a desperate need of cash flow from new sources to avoid cutting more City services and maintenance, a financial crisis or astronomical (20%) tax hikes, the lure of casino $$$ may prove irresistible to City Hall. Once started down that slippery slope who knows where the unintended fallout of Plan A could lead – theatre? Or – gasp – a comedy club? Later club hours and new clubs? Even normal city nightlife?
Because in the end fun is about a city’s attitude and behaviours and until Abbotsford City Hall changes its attitudes and behaviours, or voters change those who inhabit City Hall, Abbotsford will not offer the entertainment choices that make a City come alive, hum and be a fun place to live.
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Set a Good Example City Hall.
Community Clean Up Day is this Thursday April 26th, let us all lend a hand in a small or big way to make up for those ill-mannered litterbugs who lack the intelligence to understand what a garbage container is for.
It would be great if Abbotsford City Hall were to set an example about cleaning up the disorder in Abbotsford. To that end senior managers and councilors resignations would be a great start on cleaning up the ethical, financial and business affairs chaos their behaviour has given rise to.
Once we address and cleanse the various messes defacing our City we can get down to making Abbotsford a great place to live and do business. So City Hall, set the citizens a good example - just this once.
Community Clean Up Day is this Thursday April 26th, let us all lend a hand in a small or big way to make up for those ill-mannered litterbugs who lack the intelligence to understand what a garbage container is for.
It would be great if Abbotsford City Hall were to set an example about cleaning up the disorder in Abbotsford. To that end senior managers and councilors resignations would be a great start on cleaning up the ethical, financial and business affairs chaos their behaviour has given rise to.
Once we address and cleanse the various messes defacing our City we can get down to making Abbotsford a great place to live and do business. So City Hall, set the citizens a good example - just this once.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
I was planning to heap scorn a society that, with growing homelessness, poverty and affordable housing needs, would spend $1.1 million on a trail. I thought to enquire if Greater Vancouver got $3.7 for trail improvement and Abbotsford got $1.2 million, how was it that when Vancouver got $80 million spent on affordable housing for the homeless Abbotsford got $0.00.
Do the homeless in Abbotsford not deserve help as well? More importantly why is it local politicians were/are silent rather than calling the Liberals on their continuing failure to recognize that the homeless and affordable housing crisis extends beyond Greater Vancouver into the Fraser Valley and particularly Abbotsford?
But …… it is a new week (Monday morning) and last week held excellent results for me with regard to the WRAP program, a program I strongly embrace. So, why depress myself because local politicians and assorted big-wigs don’t seem to care about those in need enough to act responsibly OR to provide leadership? Better for my mental health to focus on the positive aspect of this cash infusion and future plans to extent the trail even further with provincial $$$.
This trail network should encourage people to travel around west Abbotsford without wasting gas and while getting some exercise. While it would have been nice if the current project had pushed further west than Exhibition Park, it is close enough to Clearbrook that the Clearbrook homeless population will be able to access the trail network.
Not only will this provide access to and open up more good camping spots, it will allow the homeless population to spread westward along the convenient entrance to west Abbotsford. It will also relieve pressures on the mounting Clearbrook homeless population, which should in turn reduce the pressure for the downtown old Abbotsford to camp out in the Compassion Park area. Thereby saving their meagre possessions from confiscation by city work crews.
Indeed I would urge the City of Abbotsford to bring immediate pressure on Victoria to provide immediate funding for the western portion of the trail so that work on the east side can also be completed this summer. I believe it is more important to focus on the eastern area with its potential to open access to Sumas Mountain to the homeless via this network of trails.
While I am not sure opening up access to camping spots and spreading the homeless population out across the city is a good idea, it does serve to provide motivation to the entire city population to become involved in addressing homelessness and affordable housing issues. And at least council, our local MLA’s and the provincial Liberals are taking an action that opens up some interesting opportunities for the City’s homeless population
What do you know, there is a great deal of truth in the assertion that it is all in how you look at things. While not a course of action I would have advocated for addressing homelessness and other affordable housing issues, viewed from a properly skewed viewpoint this network of trails certainly constitutes an interesting approach to those pressing concerns.
I was planning to heap scorn a society that, with growing homelessness, poverty and affordable housing needs, would spend $1.1 million on a trail. I thought to enquire if Greater Vancouver got $3.7 for trail improvement and Abbotsford got $1.2 million, how was it that when Vancouver got $80 million spent on affordable housing for the homeless Abbotsford got $0.00.
Do the homeless in Abbotsford not deserve help as well? More importantly why is it local politicians were/are silent rather than calling the Liberals on their continuing failure to recognize that the homeless and affordable housing crisis extends beyond Greater Vancouver into the Fraser Valley and particularly Abbotsford?
But …… it is a new week (Monday morning) and last week held excellent results for me with regard to the WRAP program, a program I strongly embrace. So, why depress myself because local politicians and assorted big-wigs don’t seem to care about those in need enough to act responsibly OR to provide leadership? Better for my mental health to focus on the positive aspect of this cash infusion and future plans to extent the trail even further with provincial $$$.
This trail network should encourage people to travel around west Abbotsford without wasting gas and while getting some exercise. While it would have been nice if the current project had pushed further west than Exhibition Park, it is close enough to Clearbrook that the Clearbrook homeless population will be able to access the trail network.
Not only will this provide access to and open up more good camping spots, it will allow the homeless population to spread westward along the convenient entrance to west Abbotsford. It will also relieve pressures on the mounting Clearbrook homeless population, which should in turn reduce the pressure for the downtown old Abbotsford to camp out in the Compassion Park area. Thereby saving their meagre possessions from confiscation by city work crews.
Indeed I would urge the City of Abbotsford to bring immediate pressure on Victoria to provide immediate funding for the western portion of the trail so that work on the east side can also be completed this summer. I believe it is more important to focus on the eastern area with its potential to open access to Sumas Mountain to the homeless via this network of trails.
While I am not sure opening up access to camping spots and spreading the homeless population out across the city is a good idea, it does serve to provide motivation to the entire city population to become involved in addressing homelessness and affordable housing issues. And at least council, our local MLA’s and the provincial Liberals are taking an action that opens up some interesting opportunities for the City’s homeless population
What do you know, there is a great deal of truth in the assertion that it is all in how you look at things. While not a course of action I would have advocated for addressing homelessness and other affordable housing issues, viewed from a properly skewed viewpoint this network of trails certainly constitutes an interesting approach to those pressing concerns.
Centennial Pool - is there a city bylaw against thinking?
Undoubtedly a portion of the blame for the damage that will be done to the Whalers Swim Club, their programs and their ability to be competitive does lie with the contractor. However, despite their finger pointing, senior city staff and council must bear the largest portion of the responsibility for this debacle.
I am tired, make that disgusted, with the fact that in making poor decision after poor decision senior staff and council insist on pointing their fingers everywhere and at everyone else, refusing to accept their responsibility for the decisions they make.
Worse, in the case of Centennial Pool they spent the past three to four months assuring the Whalers Swim Club the pool would be ready. This behaviour has clearly taken the matter of Centennial Pool past poor judgement into incompetence.
At the time the contract was awarded questions were raised by many, except for senior staff and council, concerning accepting the low bid from an inexperienced pool tank builder. Why did the experienced pool builders think building costs would be so much higher than the inexperienced builder, as reflected by their bids? With the incredibly tight deadline for completion and the devastating impact failure to open on time would have on the Whalers Swim Club, why take the extremely high risk involved in awarding the contract to a company that had never built a pool before? Exactly how is “highly recommended” preferable to a track record of actual pool construction?
I do not know the answers to these and similar questions that were raised, because senior staff and council refused to address any questions. Whether this was because the questions were from the public, arrogance, the projected $600,000 savings were desperately needed to feed the voracious appetite the capital plan has shown for consuming City cash flow or simply a lack of judgment and common sense is also unknown.
I do know it is time Abbotsford City Hall was held accountable for its actions. Mark Taylor and any other senior staff involved in this clear lack of judgment should be fired. Since Abbotsford has chosen to lack any adequate alternative facilities it is the responsibility of the city to find and secure alternative training facilities, bear any difference in costs of these facilities and provide transportation or reasonable compensation for transportation to these other facilities. Current council’s “firing” must await the next municipal election. In the meantime they owe a public apology to the Whalers.
It is past time that Abbotsford City Hall stopped blaming everyone and everything else and accepted responsibility for the consequences of the decisions they make and actions they take
Undoubtedly a portion of the blame for the damage that will be done to the Whalers Swim Club, their programs and their ability to be competitive does lie with the contractor. However, despite their finger pointing, senior city staff and council must bear the largest portion of the responsibility for this debacle.
I am tired, make that disgusted, with the fact that in making poor decision after poor decision senior staff and council insist on pointing their fingers everywhere and at everyone else, refusing to accept their responsibility for the decisions they make.
Worse, in the case of Centennial Pool they spent the past three to four months assuring the Whalers Swim Club the pool would be ready. This behaviour has clearly taken the matter of Centennial Pool past poor judgement into incompetence.
At the time the contract was awarded questions were raised by many, except for senior staff and council, concerning accepting the low bid from an inexperienced pool tank builder. Why did the experienced pool builders think building costs would be so much higher than the inexperienced builder, as reflected by their bids? With the incredibly tight deadline for completion and the devastating impact failure to open on time would have on the Whalers Swim Club, why take the extremely high risk involved in awarding the contract to a company that had never built a pool before? Exactly how is “highly recommended” preferable to a track record of actual pool construction?
I do not know the answers to these and similar questions that were raised, because senior staff and council refused to address any questions. Whether this was because the questions were from the public, arrogance, the projected $600,000 savings were desperately needed to feed the voracious appetite the capital plan has shown for consuming City cash flow or simply a lack of judgment and common sense is also unknown.
I do know it is time Abbotsford City Hall was held accountable for its actions. Mark Taylor and any other senior staff involved in this clear lack of judgment should be fired. Since Abbotsford has chosen to lack any adequate alternative facilities it is the responsibility of the city to find and secure alternative training facilities, bear any difference in costs of these facilities and provide transportation or reasonable compensation for transportation to these other facilities. Current council’s “firing” must await the next municipal election. In the meantime they owe a public apology to the Whalers.
It is past time that Abbotsford City Hall stopped blaming everyone and everything else and accepted responsibility for the consequences of the decisions they make and actions they take
Warehousing is NOT a solution.
Warehousing is not a solution, it is only a band-aid. I worry that the public will be misled into thinking this $80 million purchase of hotels by the Liberal government is a solution rather than just the first step of a multi-year long process.
It is also most worrisome that the Liberal government appears to fail to see any homelessness beyond the boundary of Greater Vancouver. The hundreds of homeless roaming the streets of Abbotsford also are in dire need of shelter Mr. Campbell, what of them?
Having said that it was still good to see the provincial government begin to acknowledge the extent of the homeless challenge we as a society and province face. This move does serve to secure these buildings for very low income housing. Ideally we would be building from the ground up to incorporate the lessons experience has taught us about designing this type of transitional housing.
Unfortunately procrastination on homelessness by all levels of government have denied us the luxury of time. While not ideal this purchase and rehab gets these units online quickly. We need to follow this beginning up by starting NOW to plan and build the additional transitional housing units required by the number of homeless on our streets, numbers that are a result of our failure to take action. These new units we can design and build based on the lessons our hard earned experience has taught us.
Simply warehousing the homeless is not a solution. At the rate our society for a variety of reasons is generating new homeless, simply warehousing the homeless continuously lead to overflowing “warehouses” and the need to be continuously adding warehouse space.
From years of experience we know the form and nature of the programs we need to put in place if we want to make progress and reduce the homeless population. I have no illusions that homelessness can be reduced to zero. I know, we know, based on experience, that we can significantly reduce the homeless population. IF we choose to make the investment in housing, detoxification, recovery and community based support programs experience we need to put in place.
The true challenge in reducing homelessness lies in the fact that the needed course of action requires leadership, boldness, a willingness to face an unpleasant reality, change our current approach and the willingness to accept and deal with the unavoidable problems in helping people with many behavioural difficulties. All of which, regrettably, politicians would rather avoid in the service of opinion polls and the name of winning politics.
It is easy to spend $80 million on buildings, especially when it permits announcing this purchase with pomp, circumstance and self congratulations.
Investing $80+ million in the housing and recovery/support programs we know we need to put in place is hard. Politics may be a blood sport but it is easy to play. It is far harder to address the complex, unpleasant and unpopular problem of homelessness calling as it does for character and the willingness to stand up and be counted not because it is politically popular but because it is the right thing, the Canadian way to behave.
Politics or Leadership, the homeless ball is currently in the court Mr. Campbell and his Liberals .
Warehousing is not a solution, it is only a band-aid. I worry that the public will be misled into thinking this $80 million purchase of hotels by the Liberal government is a solution rather than just the first step of a multi-year long process.
It is also most worrisome that the Liberal government appears to fail to see any homelessness beyond the boundary of Greater Vancouver. The hundreds of homeless roaming the streets of Abbotsford also are in dire need of shelter Mr. Campbell, what of them?
Having said that it was still good to see the provincial government begin to acknowledge the extent of the homeless challenge we as a society and province face. This move does serve to secure these buildings for very low income housing. Ideally we would be building from the ground up to incorporate the lessons experience has taught us about designing this type of transitional housing.
Unfortunately procrastination on homelessness by all levels of government have denied us the luxury of time. While not ideal this purchase and rehab gets these units online quickly. We need to follow this beginning up by starting NOW to plan and build the additional transitional housing units required by the number of homeless on our streets, numbers that are a result of our failure to take action. These new units we can design and build based on the lessons our hard earned experience has taught us.
Simply warehousing the homeless is not a solution. At the rate our society for a variety of reasons is generating new homeless, simply warehousing the homeless continuously lead to overflowing “warehouses” and the need to be continuously adding warehouse space.
From years of experience we know the form and nature of the programs we need to put in place if we want to make progress and reduce the homeless population. I have no illusions that homelessness can be reduced to zero. I know, we know, based on experience, that we can significantly reduce the homeless population. IF we choose to make the investment in housing, detoxification, recovery and community based support programs experience we need to put in place.
The true challenge in reducing homelessness lies in the fact that the needed course of action requires leadership, boldness, a willingness to face an unpleasant reality, change our current approach and the willingness to accept and deal with the unavoidable problems in helping people with many behavioural difficulties. All of which, regrettably, politicians would rather avoid in the service of opinion polls and the name of winning politics.
It is easy to spend $80 million on buildings, especially when it permits announcing this purchase with pomp, circumstance and self congratulations.
Investing $80+ million in the housing and recovery/support programs we know we need to put in place is hard. Politics may be a blood sport but it is easy to play. It is far harder to address the complex, unpleasant and unpopular problem of homelessness calling as it does for character and the willingness to stand up and be counted not because it is politically popular but because it is the right thing, the Canadian way to behave.
Politics or Leadership, the homeless ball is currently in the court Mr. Campbell and his Liberals .
Less abbotsford-speak and more plain english
I have a simple question, so simple even a local politician SHOULD be able to understand it. Although it is very clear they do not want to understand or answer. If the current cost of Plan A is 108.6 million and the taxpayers are only paying $85.0 who is it that is to pay the $23.6+ million in extra costs?
If the city has some mysterious benefactor donating this money this should be made clear so citizens can say a very big thank you. Even if anonymous we as a City need to acknowledge this great display of largess.
If on the other hand the money is being paid by the city and no one else then no matter what word games and accounting tricks the city is using, homeowners will be paying for all $108.6 million.
Citizens have the right to know exactly where the extra $23.6 million is coming from, because if it is coming out of city revenue it is coming out of citizens pockets. Particularly if the city is using any mislabeling tricks such as establishing a very large line of credit, say $23.6 million in order to say "we are not borrowing that money, we are just using the city's line of credit". Especially since these type of word games come with the extra interest costs of the high interest rates on "lines of credit.
What ever is going on the citizens of Abbotsford have the right to demand and receive a clear accounting of just were all the money for all parts of plan A are coming from.
Because should it prove that the claim of it only costing $85 million is merely word games and accounting misdirection, then clearly politicians and senior city staff are in effect lying to us.
Citizens have a need and a right to know how truthful senior city staff and our politicians are in speaking to us
I have a simple question, so simple even a local politician SHOULD be able to understand it. Although it is very clear they do not want to understand or answer. If the current cost of Plan A is 108.6 million and the taxpayers are only paying $85.0 who is it that is to pay the $23.6+ million in extra costs?
If the city has some mysterious benefactor donating this money this should be made clear so citizens can say a very big thank you. Even if anonymous we as a City need to acknowledge this great display of largess.
If on the other hand the money is being paid by the city and no one else then no matter what word games and accounting tricks the city is using, homeowners will be paying for all $108.6 million.
Citizens have the right to know exactly where the extra $23.6 million is coming from, because if it is coming out of city revenue it is coming out of citizens pockets. Particularly if the city is using any mislabeling tricks such as establishing a very large line of credit, say $23.6 million in order to say "we are not borrowing that money, we are just using the city's line of credit". Especially since these type of word games come with the extra interest costs of the high interest rates on "lines of credit.
What ever is going on the citizens of Abbotsford have the right to demand and receive a clear accounting of just were all the money for all parts of plan A are coming from.
Because should it prove that the claim of it only costing $85 million is merely word games and accounting misdirection, then clearly politicians and senior city staff are in effect lying to us.
Citizens have a need and a right to know how truthful senior city staff and our politicians are in speaking to us
Abbotsford: City without Compassion.
With the growing numbers of homeless on the streets of Abbotsford the competition for a place to find shelter or camp is, like housing market of the lower mainland, highly competitive. So it was only a matter of time of time until some were forced to return to the wooded site dubbed Compassion Park. Since late last year a number of people had been quietly coming and going from these woods in order not to disturb the neighbours or attract the attention of Abbotsford City Hall to their homes, however so humble.
It took several months but once aware of the location these citizens resided at Abbotsford City Hall moved quickly to post No Trespassing signs followed speedily by confiscation of the camper’s meagre possessions. Making the poor a little more destitute, the homeless more homeless and robbing these people, these citizens, of what little protection they had from the terrible downpours of March.
Tents, tarps, bedding and food all gone – without offering any alternative shelter to those so ruthlessly exposed to the pouring rain and cold. One could only wish they would move as speedily on addressing the issues and needs raised by homelessness in Abbotsford.
The speed with which Abbotsford City Hall moved on this matter is hardly surprising since they undoubtedly dreaded the thought of the public and media attention possible following a “rebirth” of Compassion Park. It would highlight their lack of action, of ideas or leadership. Why, the citizens might demand the council cease focusing on building white elephants and focus, even do something, on the “mundane” problems facing the city such as homelessness, water treatment, dikes, run-away property taxes, attracting businesses to diversify the tax base etc.
Leadership, innovation, good business practices, solid management and problem solving you say? Nay, not in Abbotsford! Better we be know as a city without compassion or simple Christian charity than Abbotsford City Hall should actually have to have to think and take action on the City’s pressing issues.
Citizens are left wishing that the next municipal election were only months away so they could vote and thus limit the damage the current occupants of Abbotsford City Hall are inflicting on the City finances and the backlog of pressing problems they are causing by ignoring issues and/or failing to act.
Unfortunately for the lives of the homeless, taxpayers and citizens, Abbotsford City Hall still has lots of time to mire the City in debt, unresolved problems and to continue to inflict misery on the homeless.
With the growing numbers of homeless on the streets of Abbotsford the competition for a place to find shelter or camp is, like housing market of the lower mainland, highly competitive. So it was only a matter of time of time until some were forced to return to the wooded site dubbed Compassion Park. Since late last year a number of people had been quietly coming and going from these woods in order not to disturb the neighbours or attract the attention of Abbotsford City Hall to their homes, however so humble.
It took several months but once aware of the location these citizens resided at Abbotsford City Hall moved quickly to post No Trespassing signs followed speedily by confiscation of the camper’s meagre possessions. Making the poor a little more destitute, the homeless more homeless and robbing these people, these citizens, of what little protection they had from the terrible downpours of March.
Tents, tarps, bedding and food all gone – without offering any alternative shelter to those so ruthlessly exposed to the pouring rain and cold. One could only wish they would move as speedily on addressing the issues and needs raised by homelessness in Abbotsford.
The speed with which Abbotsford City Hall moved on this matter is hardly surprising since they undoubtedly dreaded the thought of the public and media attention possible following a “rebirth” of Compassion Park. It would highlight their lack of action, of ideas or leadership. Why, the citizens might demand the council cease focusing on building white elephants and focus, even do something, on the “mundane” problems facing the city such as homelessness, water treatment, dikes, run-away property taxes, attracting businesses to diversify the tax base etc.
Leadership, innovation, good business practices, solid management and problem solving you say? Nay, not in Abbotsford! Better we be know as a city without compassion or simple Christian charity than Abbotsford City Hall should actually have to have to think and take action on the City’s pressing issues.
Citizens are left wishing that the next municipal election were only months away so they could vote and thus limit the damage the current occupants of Abbotsford City Hall are inflicting on the City finances and the backlog of pressing problems they are causing by ignoring issues and/or failing to act.
Unfortunately for the lives of the homeless, taxpayers and citizens, Abbotsford City Hall still has lots of time to mire the City in debt, unresolved problems and to continue to inflict misery on the homeless.
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