The city’s working group on homelessness has set funding priorities
The Nanaimo Working Group on Homelessness recently made decisions regarding the use of federal funding for local homelessness initiatives. But there were too many applicants for the limited funding available. One program that will not receive an annual grant this year is Haven Society’s Willow Wai initiative—a program that helps sex workers and other homeless women off the streets.
The funding decisions have raised questions about priorities, strategies, and approaches to dealing with homelessness in the community—against the backdrop of funding challenges.
We’re joined in the studio by John Horn, social planner with the City of Nanaimo, and co-chair of the Nanaimo Working Group on Homelessness, and by Anne Spilker, executive director of Haven Society.
