Homelessness in Victoria BC, Canada - June 2023 | Pandora Avenue
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- Homelessness in Victoria BC, Canada - June 2023 | Pandora Avenue
Homeless Life in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada Walking Tour 2023 | Homeless Population | Mental Illness | Drug Abuse | Drug Addicted | Most Dangerous Hood of Victoria BC | Homeless Area of Victoria Vancouver Island
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I was homeless in Victoria. I was also psychotic with Schizoaffective Disorder. It's a difficult life lesson to learn when you realize that your presence and very fiber of being is looked at as an inconvenience by many. I was able to get help and worked my way out of poverty. This is not in any way possible for everyone, and I just hope that people keep their wits about them, and be safe when dealing with this. The people who you surround yourself with are paramount to your mental health. It's easy to latch onto anybody who's seemingly nice, but I will warn you, everyone has a dark side and many will take advantage. I can't imagine how tough it is for women especially and youths. Please keep reaching up and remain hopeful even though it may seem that there is no end. Miracles happen.
I'm a young woman. I lived there alone 5 years ago. Some of the kindest, generous and authentic people I've ever met still live there.
It's a HUGE step to get off the street because landlords don't want to rent to someone who's on the street! Damn near impossible to get housing. And the waitlist for social housing is years long.
So nice to hear positive outcomes
@@bunnyboonot4uI live a few block away. The camp gets larger daily. 😮Too many people needing an affordable place to live. Addictions run rampant because there is not much hope. A few baddies infiltrate their way in, tarnishing the image of the rest. Alot of organizations work to help the people, clean,eat,sober up,not die.❤ I was looking for homeless population #'s and couldn't find any, but the # must be 100's upon 100's 😢 The world decaying around us.😢
Believe me, the encampment will be growing bigger and bigger. Authorities need to do something before this becomes out of control like DTES in Vancouver.
@@tsangdennis1953 fool .....it's not authorities that need to act it's all of us.....
To live with minimum comforts you need an annual wage of $75K, the average single bedroom apt in Vic is over $2050/month, median sales of home prices is just under $1million....and its only going up.
Yep bought a home her years ago and I am almost retired my wage would not be able to support me today in this over priced city.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for the homeless people to migrate to a city or area that is less expensive?
@@maleighjohnson7020 migrate? Fool they are where they are so they don't freeze to death.
Thank you for showing around!
It's only getting worse and worse. Many people downtown clearly have mental issues, screaming at passers by, or are obviously slumped over from drugs. I don't understand why more isn't being done.
Because of greed, millions of dollars are poured into homeless corporations, but all the money goes to administration, or is embezzled, none of it goes to help us. I get 375.00 for rent, rent me a place?
I will rent you a room in saskatoon east side, 375, all included
@@nwo6541 I would love to, lived in toon town 27 yrs, unfortunately I am on Victoria Island ATM.
@@user-uv5rt6uy3p hey wut u hiring fur n when I show up for interview. After your words you phuk I'll make sure there's a nice tombstone in your memory
Sending prayers
Vancouver and Victoria were considered jewels to many in the U.S. that knew about these cities. The drug dealers and pushers looking for clients have caused this tragedy. What a curse drug and alcohol addiction is on the world.
Blame your leftist government. fucking this amazing country!
Enabled and facilitated by left-wing policy.
It's "not dangerous", in the sense that you'll survive if you bike through it, but it's actually extremely dangerous if you try and live there as a homeless person. Also, everyone who does these types of videos hides their camera or does it from the safety of a locked vehicle. Why? Because if you don't, it's DANGEROUS.
@cryptameria 👍 I like people like you that are straight up. I used lived here. I have my own place now
I mean i used to buy drugs there and i was only almost stabbed once
One time I recorded a video with my phone and several homeless people came running at me ready to hit me
bah, this is nothing. it's like a huge step below almost all cities homelessness problems,
Victoria only the rich and the homeless can afford to live there
Remeber this next election cycle. "Safe supply" nonsense will not help anyone. Improved custody infrastructure, to include dedicated mental health units for provincial and federal facilities is the only way forward in my opinion. Once we get there, I'm sure new inovations can be looked at.
I for one feel terrible for anyone who cant help themselves, but more importantly, i want my family and I to be safe in our community.
Yes, I agree. I also feel terrible for people who CAN’T help themselves.
In my opinion, it’s the people who WON’T help themselves that are the problem.
They take scarce resources away from those who truly can’t help themselves.
I think some tough love is in order for those who won’t help themselves.
Tough love may be tough, but it is still love.
I want all of these people to improve their lives and become productive members of society.
You and the fam need to be on that block of Pandora because why ???
@johnclement1359 I've only had half a dozen incidents on Pandora. Most of the time it's been on store, government, view. If you spend any time in Victoria, you know the criminality occurring in here is obviously not isolated to "a block" of Pandora. To allude that it is, is either disingenuous or delusional.
As someone who pays taxes in the city, there should be no public space unavailable to me, aside from occasional planned events or something of the like. That includes my family. The bottom like is that the politicians, municipal, provincial and federal, don't care about the homeless population, and are now realizing that they don't have to care about any of the population, because everyone is so pacified that they don't need to win votes. "Why fix a problem of it isn't ours", essentially is their attitude.
@@thenorthernwill Well said.
Thank you for sharing.. Please keep up the good reporting.. Also please put the text in blue or other color so that it will be easier to read...
I am sorry to say but when I moved to Victoria from Alberta in 1982 downtown was nothing like it is today. I was allowed to go with my brothers downtown and my brothers at the time were 4 and 2 and it was safe. Now today both of my brothers have young children of there own and it is different and they would not let there children downtown on the bus alone or stuff as it is not safe. I have heard people that are just walking downtown with there child in a stroller and coffee getting thrown on the child by a homeless person. These people choose this life. They come here to do drugs and stuff and they choose this life. Not many people that are in the tents want to get into housing. What the the city needs to do is people that come over to Victoria not to look for housing but to do drugs and live on the street need to be sent back and not allowed in BC anymore. We need to make this city safe and wonderful again for the tourists that come. Because of this we are not getting the money from the tourists that we did back before it turned like this. This needs to be taken down and the people that just came over here and are not from BC need to go back and be homeless in the city that they came from. I do not know why you say this is safe. NOT SAFE!! TAKE IT ALL DOWN!!
Getting off of this or any other island is an expense that will keep them here. Make it FREE to get off and some may leave, but that is just moving the problem elsewhere. 😢
I have never seen the beautiful city of Victoria, British Columbia in such a terrible state! However, the country has lots of money for Ukraine!
Try that at night lol Safe?
My countrymen, women and children lying on pavement, how embarrassing as a country is this. This is what this proud country has to offer its homeless.....drop everything else and help our own!! NOW! Why does this need to be said and pointed out!!!
You can't help people that don't want help. Bunch of worthless scum. The only help they deserve, is help to get out of our city. Bleeding hearts make it worse
Typically capitalist and anti-social neglect!
❤ Love your beautiful heart!! I lived here, I don't now. These people are my family. I give Our Place clothes for my friends. It's so hard to get off the street, and the waitlist for social housing is years long
and to think only 200 years ago the Lekwungen people were thriving on this land for thousands of years. Now these poor people are succumbed to capitalist failures, living in tents beside a major road, nothing but concrete, drugs, and depression all around.
@@CANADAWOOOOOOOOO The native people should be running things world wide I can only imagine what a beautiful world that would have been.
Well done Liberals NDP. VOTE them in again see what else they can wreck
I live in Vancouver and believe me, its much worse there, but walking through these areas is fine, as long as you walk with purpose, not strolling and don't make eye contact, and if you smoke, well don't unless you want to be asked for smokes. Side streets off Pandora are a better option. Its not a feast-for-the-eyes circus, its just reality.
WOW! The wonderful gardens of Josep Borrell are found in Canada.
I live around the corner... It's not dangerous in the sense that ppl are going to strait up mug you ... but it's pretty depressing that ppl are left to rot on the street in all weather
any update? is it the same or worse?
صباح الخير ايها الاصدقاء نهار كم سعيد. ماذا تحبون ان اجلب لكم الفطور الصباحي هذا اليوم 🎉
Victoria is a wonderful place for the homeless. Spread the word.
Never vote Liberal or NDP ever Again. Trudeau and Eby have to go.
don't tell me what to do, genius.
Ok street dweller.
It is dangerous to go downtown Victoria.
It isn't.
@@pw6498 Would you let your daughter, mother, or girlfriend walk by herself there?
(99 percent safe. Be smart.
Victoria is a phony tourist trap to boot.
@@pw6498Yes it is Victoria is a shithole. Lipstick on a tourist trap pig that’s Victoria.
Oh its dangerous alright! Drug dealers, criminals, frequent arrest's.
Wow. Nice campground! Do not seems expensive. I will be moving to Victoria soon.
You’re not the only one.
Only expensive if you want to eat. Free camping😮Free tents😮 Johnston St. The road to nowhere.😢
It sounds totally safe @ 2:12🙄
Having lived on Pandora myself, I find your video informative and non judgmental, which I appreciate. However, out of respect for these people, I hope that you told them they're on video.
This used to be a nice little town.
Cities in the USA look the same. Blocks of truck campers or tent cities. Its bad everywhere. Feeding people is good but it doesn't address the problem.
It’s because it’s the warmest area of CANADA? NOT hard to figure Out
"warmest area of CANADA?" when elsewhere the temperature can drop to -20 °C, "warm" is relative.😂😂😂
In comparison to the rest of Canada, that is.
Calgary is lucky it headed off homeless tent camps with emergency shelters . But they might be bursting at the seams come winter with many people across Canada coming in hopes of work and apartments. The DI and the salvation army shelter often over run with substance abuse people.
Calgary and other city's need to take serious approach to liberal homelessness. To keep the hospitals and police and emergency service from being over taxed with sickness mental - physical. It be nice if they could spread the service across several medium size buildings spread across the city with employment and housing workers. Do assessment on people to see what housing best suits them . And or medical needs because police ambulance and hospitals are being over run with drug overdoses or mental healthy issues/crisis. They also need drug detox work farms for repeat offenders potatoes farms or the like. No open drug use and if they do complete shake down on druggies to see what quanity they have.
I would HATE to work at that McDonald's across the street lol. And this uploader seems like a bleeding-heart, formerly homeless, homeless-people-are-never-at-fault homeless advocate.
Blame-the-victims type swine comment.
@@truthadvocacy
Most of them are not victims.
Mental health Canada is a pill dispenser- that’s it!
And that’s for people who are well enough to understand that they need a pill or two.
My sister who has paranoid schizophrenia lived in a Housing Complex in Kamloops that is managed under Mental Health BC. They evicted her for putting a camera over her apt door - after five years of living there, maintaining part time work ( often) and not a public nuisance at all.
She barely fends off homelessness yearly now - going from motel to motel. Job to job. Very high functioning mentally ill woman who cannot recognize she needs a pill to level her mind enough to get stable.
I have tried three times to get her BC Housing.
But her old story psychotic beliefs about me always rise up and she flees. My point being, if mental health can’t handle a very quiet, never touched a drug, alcohol, or booze, harmless schizophrenic under their roof - they are not working for the mentally ill.
I live not to far from Pandora and the homeless and poor have been in that area for years and years eating at the soup kitchen they have there. I have never had a problem in that area or walking down Pandora. Just mind your own business and don't look down on ppl because they are poor.
Me also... No one bothers anyone... I walk there most days,
😮
At least they keep it clean hope and pray they find homes
They don't want homes dummy. They want to get high and have no rules like eternal petulant children.
??Keep it clean?? You obviously don't walk down there!! I did today and trash everywhere😢 I live 2 blocks away. I have lived here 50+ years.😮
Unfortunately we are marginalized ❤
SOCIALISM gives EVERYTHING but LOVE & CARE !! KEEP GOING, ALL AHEAD REVERSE !!
But socialist or post-socialist countries don't suffer this capitalist plague, and say so!
deranged comment 🤦
@@truthadvocacy
But they do suffer the plague of scarcity and housing so dilapidated that being homeless would been preferable.
😨
DRUGS
That could be any 1, I live down the street,I'm lucky I got government housing 🎉
I knew pandora avenue is was not like that full of homeless people
@@MajedAlmutairi2024 It is worse now.
It is principally a drug and mental health crisis and the city is bursting with job vacancies….maybe they could try working a job
Without a shower, stinking feet and armpits, greasy hair and no food, sure I'll come work for you. I have bookkeeping and administration skills. Oh I was a welder before I broke my ankle 10 yrs ago I've been homeless ever since, sure I'll come work for you.
This was filmed pretty close to when a mob of 60 people attacked paramedics trying to help someone, you can hear addicts screaming at each other in this video. I watched a man bust his gf face wide open and she begged us not to intervene likely because he had a knife. Not dangerous though
The great and peaceful people of the great country of Canada. How peaceful is every street in Canada and how peacefully people are living here. They are very peaceful people. No fighting and no looting of any kind. This is Victoria bc and the rest of Canada will be the same in years to come.
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Kick out Justin Trudeau and things commented in this video will change for the better.
If that was all it would take that would be great but that won’t do it.
@@tonyfanfarone `\_o_/` It'll be a step in the right direction
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Alberta needs to start sending our addicts here so they can have free smack and live their best life lol.
Addiction is no joke. It could be someone you love. Be careful what you mock.
@@privatename8228the way it’s treated in bc is a joke though. It is happening to people who are cares about and what the government is doing is making it WORSE!!
Apparently they already are! Someone showed stats in a diff video where supposedly 25% of the homeless in BC are from Alberta ;)
@@merrymeditation well when you offer free drugs and money it defiantly seems more Ho less friendly
Very sad
Unfortunately the walking dead are everywhere
Learn the Law: Those who do not have jobs, do NOT pay taxes! Occupy your houses, people!! God will Save You !
AS A KID I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE EXTRA 'CATCH' WAS ABOUT THOSE TENTS, THE TENTS SHOULDN'T BE PURCHASED OR BE FOR SALE AT THE STORES BECAUSE OF WHERE THEY GO, HOW INAPPROPRIATELY THEY ARE USED, AND THEY ARE GENERALLY MADE FOR HOLSUM OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY, FAMILY CAMPING, AND THEY HAVE A SERIOUS GRIEVOUS REALITY - A MORAL TWIST TO WHAT THOSE TENTS REPRESENT, SPROCKET IN TIME
i beleive they do not buy the tents themselves, this is mental health money, they are the ones who purchase tents, sleeping bags, clothing, Nike hats and shoes for them all for free not to mention all the other freebees they get, some project with the millions spend on them annually each street person get at least eight thousand dollars worth of services spend on them every month while the law abiding poor get a tiny 1500.00 for rent and everything else and nothing more...
@@phoenixman8569 Moron, you have to be the least educated Canadian in the country. 😂🤣
Not dangerous?? oh please
Time for a new video, it is much worse now, such a true distopia
Only getting worse.
WITH YOUR FIRST COMMENT 'THIS PLACE IS SAFE' I THOUGHT YOU WERE BEING SARDONIC, DARK SARCASM
hello I would need help my sister would live in the street in this area ..... I urgently need to find her and the police don't really help me and her name is Véronique Miville and can be called Veronika help me I need help above me I am in Quebec very far and little resource to help me
Danm, looks worse than Toronto and Victoria is just a small town tho
That because we have a good climate and we get so many pieces of garbage from Toronto and other cities. 80% of these scumbags are not from Victoria.
Oh and go into the tunnels down under Victoria I dare you LOL cops and the escorts body's that they ... Well you get the point
Funny how everyone assumes they are all addicts. I live in Calgary and actually took food out to the ones around my apartment guess what? 50% are addicts so solve the assumption might solve the problem. Homelessness in Canada is not just addicts wow
Talk to them they don’t bite.
Sad to see all of BC like this now. But perhaps it was meant to humble the BC people as I never forget when BC laughed and said they deserved to die in the fort mac fire. BC needed these shocks to humble the attitude
Again talk to them I know your BC but one day you will have to talk to them try it now they are not rabid animals. Or take food and water and help them instead of filming to get likes off their pain.
Don’t talk to them because they do bite and attack people.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You don't live here so don't act like you know what the population here is like.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but 99 percent addicted.
Sorry to burst your bubble but 99 percent addicted
@@johnclement1359 Ya you would know, so many fools comment, not only are you clueless your also part of the problem.
Life sucks
Don't blame the landlords for the high rents it's very simple logic why they are so high. Would you want any of these drug addict's living in your nice rentals? I think not, that's why the rents are so high so none of these people can afford them and fail to pay rent monthly then destroy them at the landlords expense. I would do the same. These people chose the drug addict lifestyle so they can live with it, they can only blame themselves.
"so high so none of these people can afford them" homeless are too few for the rental market to price them out. Rental surge is a general trend that has nothing to do with homelessness, as mostly the middle class suffers as a consequence. Those people should be catered for by the local authorities, but are not. Typically capitalist and anti-social neglect!
Your logic is perplexing. That has no correlation to why rent is high. Are you actually serious with this theory of yours? Lol
@@Ghoststalker777 Man you must be one of the dumbest Canadians I have ever heard comment.
Well maybe change the way you vote ? This is what you voted for, so learn to live with your mistakes.
landlords r priks
Maybe , but they're not a charity.
@shauncameron8390 I didn't say that so stop sympathizing for the system. Captilism can go to hell with this economy and this country and its people for none of us deserve a future if that's the attitude. If Money over human life is what we fought for then we can go to hell.
@@shauncameron8390damn it all.
It's not dangerous?? omg you are delusional.. 😂
Canada's only possible solution to Homelessness is to gather all the homeless people across Canada grouped in one place, for example, in Toronto or Vancouver Don't let them wander into every other location and stay on the sidewalks. If you see homeless people, dump them all in Toronto or anywhere with a good climate. There needs to be a place to accept those homeless people to be put and be allowed to live. Similarly, the garbage that has landfills to dump enough rubbish and segregate combustible from non-combustible waste so you can recycle usable items by type, likewise to people, cautiousness if the people are contagious, separate the bad from the good people and ordinary people. Separate the sheep from the goats. Matthew 25:31-46
"in Toronto or anywhere with a good climate. "😂😂😂
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That was always a weird place. Go to Peter Gustavsons House in Oak Bay and ask for help. He is soooo kind and worth over $300 million. He will help for sure.