Living on Welfare in BC

Experiences of Longer-Term "Expected to Work" Recipients

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Excellent work, exposing how people who are 'expected to work' and surviving on welfare.

Reveals welfare rules and rates cause disturbing harm to most vulnerable

April 22, 2008

The report is here:

Living on Welfare in BC: Experiences of Longer-Term "Expected to Work" Recipients - FULL RESEARCH REPORT

Agencies 'connect' with homeless
Offer of free meal, haircut, clothes draws hundreds
 
Daryl Slade
Calgary Herald

Sunday, April 27, 2008
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Ben Fredricks gets a haircut from volunteer Juhli Khemaroth at Project Homeless Connect.
CREDIT: Lorraine Hjalte, Calgary Herald
Ben Fredricks gets a haircut from volunteer Juhli Khemaroth at Project Homeless Connect.

Ben Fredricks sauntered into the Telus Convention Centre Saturday, got a good meal, a badly needed haircut, a shot of self-esteem and scanned clothes racks in hopes of finding a pair of jeans.

All in all, it was a good day for the 29-year-old man who has been living at the Sunalta homeless shelter, dealing with an alcohol addiction in hopes of being able to reintegrate into the work force.

Expose Canada's perfidy, too - The Kingston Whig-Standard

The Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada

Further, Vancouver's rundown Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is being gentrified, and police intimidation of the homeless population is intensifying as the ...

Restoring a landmark, reviving a neighbourhood - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail, Canada

VANCOUVER -- On a troubled block of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where bars cover doors and windows and drugs are injected openly, members of the ...

This article from Francis Bula at the Vancouver Sun suggests private money is required to provide enough homes for people. In July over $400 million will be 'given' to the people of B.C. in the shape of $100 environmental cheque for each inhabitant.

Now the $100 isn't enough to make any real 'green' improvements, but if even if 25% of the B.C.  population of 4.1 million gathered together and pooled their $100 cheques that would raise $100 million, enough for a least 400 homes for 'low income' poor people in our midst.