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<\/a><\/p>\nYes I know it seems a silly suggestion but, it would be as effective at addressing homelessness as anything the city has done, is doing or proposes to do. Actually, it would probably be more useful as it at least has entertainment value.<\/em><\/p>\nIf one is in fact speaking of \u2018housing first\u2019 as usurped by Abbotsford\u2019s mayor and council, then a Regional Forum on Housing First Best Practices fits right in with the BLAH BLAH BLAH of jargon, buzzwords and bureaucratese. It will create lots of words and commotion without the need to engage in the unpleasantness of having to do the hard slogging required if you actually undertake the task of reducing homelessness.<\/em><\/p>\nBest of all, you can spend the day at the forum \u2018working\u2019 on homelessness<\/em> without the need to deal with the homeless.<\/p>\nI have no idea what this forum is intended to accomplish, hopefully it is intended to accomplish something, but whatever that something is it isn\u2019t reducing homelessness.<\/p>\n
That way the forum won\u2019t be disrupted by embarrassing questions such as why Abbotsford is wasting time and money on homeless bureaucrats, research assistants, a homeless advisory and so on and so on …….<\/p>\n
.;…… and ignoring the results, information, approach, tools and techniques demonstrated as effective in reducing \u2013 not recycling \u2013 the homeless population by the Canadian Federal governments 5 year research study.<\/p>\n
The study whose results were so impressive the federal government earmarked funds to act as seed money to enable communities to create and implement a Housing First Action Plan of the type the research study demonstrated as effective in reducing homelessness.<\/p>\n
Funds earmarked to create and implement Housing First Action Plans, not in three, ten or twenty years but now, from which the city received \u2013 from the federal conservative government in this election year – $400,000.00.<\/p>\n
$400,000.00 that, thanks to the efforts of the mayor, council, Homeless Advisory Committee chaired by veteran city councillor Dave Loewen, homeless bureaucrat Ms Beno and consultants, will be frittered away and Abbotsford\u2019s homeless population still growing.<\/p>\n
$400,000 that in competent \u2013 make that even marginally competent \u2013 hands would have created a Housing First Action Plan setting out how Abbotsford was going to reduce homelessness and the resources required to do that.<\/p>\n
Operational Note:<\/u><\/em> An Action Plan is intended to clarify what resources are required to reach the goal. Moaning about it \u2018not being your responsibility\u2019 or \u2018you don\u2019t have the resources\u2019 or \u2018cannot afford the resources\u2019 when you have not determined what resources are needed is so …… Abbotsfordian ……. futilely raising barriers that block the only choice you have, the only choice demonstrated to achieve the goal \u2013 reducing then ending homelessness.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\nSo in Abbotsford we don\u2019t have a Housing First Action Plan to reduce homelessness, but we do have a forum on on Housing First Best Practices.<\/p>\n
A forum that, while it is not about reducing homelessness, is hoped to accomplish something – or other<\/p>\n
Something that does not require speakers with experience creating, implementing or managing Housing First Action Plans, or from cities using a Housing First Action Plan to reduce their homeless population.<\/p>\n
But nonetheless Something \u2013 Your Tax Dollars at Work.<\/p>\n
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