Title: [Excerpt:] New homes coming for vulnerable people in Victoria | May 15, 2020 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYEqMJBWsAAScG4?format=png&name=small

Description: LizaYuzda on Twitter: "The BC Gov put up $18.5 million to buy the Victoria hotel where people are now housed who were living in a couple different park/street locations - as part of the province ensuring people who were homeless had safe places during the pandemic. #yyj #bcpoli #covid19 @NEWS1130"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction,  BC Housing,  Our Place Society,  Island Health ,  Helps, Lisa,  McKenzie, Grant,  Topaz Park ,  Comfort Inn Hotel

Title: Inside the struggle to keep Victoria’s homeless safe from COVID-19 | The Tyee

URL: https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/02/Homeless-Victoria-COVID-19/

Description: The world has turned upside down for the street community, just as it has for the rest of the world. However, one difference is that many of those living in precarious circumstances are used to daily crises, which may make it more difficult for them to take COVID-19 as an imminent threat.

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Subject:   Tysick, Al,  Victoria Dandelion Society,  Cool Aid Society,  McKenzie, Grant,  British Columbia Toxic Drugs Crisis,  City of Victoria,  Topaz Park ,  BC Housing,  Island Health ,  Royal Athletic Park,  Helps, Lisa,  Stanwick, Richard,  Emergency Management BC,  Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness

Title: [Questions about shelter spaces for COVID-positive unhoused people]

URL: https://twitter.com/brish_ti/status/1442592093709299712/

Description: Brishti Basu on Twitter: "Last week I asked @BC_Housing where unhoused COVID-positive can self-isolate in #yyj. They told me they’re working to find spaces Yesterday ppl werent allowed to isolate at Topaz Park. So once again, I asked where they’re supposed to go Sent them a yes or no question. Reply: / I also asked @CityOfVictoria mayor Lisa Helps where unhoused ppl can go without being forcibly displaced by bylaw officers. Her response contradicts everything frontline workers (see @TheBackPackPro1 ) have been saying. / Last week @VanIslandHealth CMHO Dr. Richard Stanwick said, "A tent is a not a place to isolate" as an argument against setting them up. So instead of a tent, I'm hearing a COVID-positive person had to sleep on a bench last night in the rain. #yyj / Stanwick's response was odd imo, considering there've been no outbreaks among the unhoused community in #yyj while most were living in tents, but cases are rampant now. Regardless, if a tent is not a safe space to isolate, will someone tell us where people are expected to go?"

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Subject:   BC Housing,  Topaz Park ,  City of Victoria,  Island Health ,  Helps, Lisa,  Stanwick, Richard

Title: Greater Victoria COVID 19 vulnerable populations response plan | April 2, 2020 | Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness

URL: https://victoriahomelessness.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID-Vulnerable-Population-Response-Plan-A-2020.04.02_BASIC_NEEDS_LOCATION_MODEL.pdf

Description: COVID-19 response plan for Greater Victoria's vulnerable populations.

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Subject:   Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness,  Topaz Park ,  Royal Athletic Park,  Island Health ,  BC Housing,  City of Victoria,  Victoria Dandelion Society,  Doctors of the World

Title: Greater Victoria COVID-19 vulnerable populations response plan | June 26, 2020 | Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness

URL: https://victoriahomelessness.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-06-26-Vulnerable-Population-Response-Plan.pdf.pdf

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Subject:   Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness,  Island Health ,  BC Housing,  PHS Community Services Society,  Umbrella Society,  SOLID Outreach Society,  Victoria Cool Aid Society,  Pacifica Housing,  Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society,  AVI Health and Community Services,  Our Place Society,  Sooke Region Communities Health Network,  Salt Spring Island Community Services,  Topaz Park ,  Beacon Hill Park,  Royal Athletic Park,  Victoria Dandelion Society,  Victoria Curling Club,  James Bay Community Centre,  Oaklands Community Centre,  Doctors of the World,  Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees,  Peers Victoria Resources Society,  St. John Ambulance,  HeroWork Victoria,  Narcotics Anonymous,  Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre,  Paul's Motor Inn,  Capital City Center Hotel,  Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction,  SEAPARC Leisure Complex

Title: ‘This was the worst case scenario’: No plan for COVID-positive unhoused people in Victoria | Capital Daily

URL: https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/worst-case-scenario-covid-positive-unhoused-people-victoria/

Description: Bylaw officers seized tents and supplies for sick people, while authorities wring hands over lack of options.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  BC Housing,  City of Victoria,  Stanwick, Richard,  Topaz Park ,  Ottosen, Niki,  The Back Pack Project,  Perkins, Shae,  Helps, Lisa,  Royal Jubilee Hospital,  Sobering & Assessment Centre,  Province of British Columbia,  Beacon Hill Park

Title: The Harbour supervised consumption service goes mobile in response to COVID-19 needs | April 1, 2020 | Island Health

URL: https://www.islandhealth.ca/news/news-releases/harbour-supervised-consumption-service-goes-mobile-response-covid-19-needs/

Description: People in the 900 block of Pandora will continue to receive essential life-saving services during the dual public health emergencies of the overdose crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Health Canada,  Stanwick, Richard,  The Harbour,  City of Victoria,  BC Housing,  Topaz Park ,  Royal Athletic Park,  BC Emergency Health Services,  Lookout Health and Housing Society,  Society of Living Illicit Drug Users,  AVI Health and Community Services,  PHS Community Services Society,  Victoria Cool-Aid Society