Williams Lake Tribune, November 27, 2015

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A housing project that has helped eradicate homelessness in Medicine Hat, Alta. is being launched in Williams Lake. “Medicine Hat is claiming they essentially ended homelessness in their community and they did it in five years using this approach,” said Anne Burrill who is managing the federally funded Housing First Planning Project. “We wanted people to know it’s happening in our community as well.” Canadian Mental Health homelessness worker Wayne Lucier is part of the Homelessness and Housing Committee in Williams Lake that will advise on the project. “Our obstacle in Williams Lake is lack of affordable housing,” Lucier said. “Most people I work with cannot afford rent and some of those are people earning minimum wage.” Lucier said the government needs to provide more subsidies and the problem in Williams Lake is the fact that as each low rental building’s mortgage is paid up, the owner is no longer eligible for subsidies. “We had that happen with the Cariboo Friendship Society and in one or two years the same thing will happen at Cariboo Sunset Manor,” Lucier said, noting the majority of tenants are seniors or people with disabilities. Between March 2014 and April 2015, he worked with 111 new homeless clients, another 300 were repeat customers, but 100 of those were actually couch surfing and staying with friends.

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