The Existence Project

The Existence Project uses storytelling to connect unhoused and housed communities in Victoria, B.C. #everybodyhasastory

[The Existence Project @existenceprojct]

Thank you for sharing! 💜

[VIMentalHealth @VIMentalHealth]

“I think we can all recognize that folks who have lived experience are the true experts and need a seat at the table when it comes to conversations about ending #homelessness” #Duncan #CowichanValley #Victoria @existenceprojct https://t.co/EUSexi3lta

[The Back Pack Project Victoria BC @TheBackPackPro1]

💥 📣 IT'S TIME TO FLOOD THE PHONES!! 💥☎️ 💥

I just received this message this morning from a woman who is sheltering at Vic West Park. This is the second time in a week, that people in Vic West park have had their belongings seized and thrown in the garbage by Bylaw and Vic PD

[The Back Pack Project Victoria BC @TheBackPackPro1]

💥📣 🛑 The “Stop the Sweeps” Documentary on the violent displacement of people who were sheltering in the DTES, is coming to Victoria this Sunday, October 15th! Doors open at 3 PM. At the Downtown community center. 755 Pandora Ave. #
stopthesweeps
#housingisahumanright

[The Back Pack Project Victoria BC @TheBackPackPro1]

Seattle is not dying.
Vancouver is not dying.
Victoria is not dying.
People need housing .
People need supports.
Housing is a Human right.
Housing is a Human right.
Housing is a Human right.
Housing is a Human right.
Housing is a Human right.
#yyj #homesnothate

[The Back Pack Project Victoria BC @TheBackPackPro1]

No housing and no shelter space. And we are heading into fall and winter…..💔⛺️
Does the city of Victoria have a plan??
#yyj
#housingisahumanright

@KahlonRav
@HousingLogement
@BC_Housing
@MarianneAlto

[The Existence Project @existenceprojct]

@self_govern4us @hymnhothead Sorry to hear about your brother Kym. Sending love your way. 💜

[VIMentalHealth @VIMentalHealth]

"Cameron started volunteering with SOLID Outreach Society, which provides peer-based #heatheducation & #harmreduction to people who use substances & eventually got a job with the organization. He now serves as its program director" @OutreachSolid #IOAD2023 https://t.co/eEv6IjGcFE

[The Back Pack Project Victoria BC @TheBackPackPro1]

💥📣 PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!✅
Sunday, September 24th at 12:00. Centennial Square.
We would love to see you there! ♥️⛺️✊🏻

And please share with your networks!
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#mamabear

[Peer2Peer Indigenous Society @Indig1Peer]

Our team will be heading to Irving Park on Saturday afternoon for a Pizza Party with our donated $ We thought it would be awesome to buy pizza and pop for our unhoused friends. Come and join us and meet the folks who live there .

[@andreawoo.bsky.social | 鄔瑞楓 @AndreaWoo]

Transitional housing is intended to offer women fleeing violence a safe place to live as they figure out next steps. But @thatemfagan finds hundreds are becoming homeless or returning to abusive situations: https://t.co/GznPiTwTp4

[Jen St. Denis @JenStDen]

“Everyone I know and love is dead,” Nyx says, adding a close friend just died last week. She tattooed his name, Tommy, on her arm.

By @MichelleGamage https://t.co/3gqlsd2l0u

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Pierre Poilievre has launched a major campaign attacking Safer Supply drug programs & pushing Trudeau to scrap them & redirect funds to detox/rehab.

He says there's now hard proof Safer Supply doesn't work – a National Post article by @adamzivo.

Let's look at that article. 1/x

[Office of the Federal Housing Advocate @HousingLogement]

We want to hear from you about #encampments. Organizations, advocates, people who work in the homelessness sector, and other stakeholders can contribute to the Advocate’s review: https://t.co/Lld6ITPW7J

[Nicole Chaland | be kind to others @NicoleChaland]

There are many truths and insights about homelessness in this short video containing interviews with the volunteers who are responding to this humanitarian crisis.

@nsun_victoria @TheBackPackPro1

https://t.co/iOdoPusqEC

[The Back Pack Project Victoria BC @TheBackPackPro1]

💥📣 WE NEED YOU!! 🫵🏻
All hands on deck TODAY at 2:30 on Pandora Green!!
Victoria will be kicking off an INTERNATIONAL week of Solidarity! This event is HUGE! And we need YOU 🫵🏻 there!! Please share widely!
#StopTheSweeps #yyj #HousingIsAHumanRight #endthe7to7shelteringbylaw

[Office of the Federal Housing Advocate @HousingLogement]

The Federal Housing Advocate’s review of #encampments in Canada will include testimony from people with lived experience. Anyone who has experienced living in an encampment, or organizations who advocate on their behalf, can contribute to the review: https://t.co/Lld6ITPW7J

[Bernie Pauly (she/her) @BerniePauly]

If you don’t like homelesness provide housing not shelters. There is nothing safe about displacement. #r2housing #stopdisplacement

[Nicole Chaland | be kind to others @NicoleChaland]

“These nickels represent the Crown’s long standing policy of taking the last nickel from the poor,” Ottosen said. @TheBackPackPro1

https://t.co/DclrcDRifv

[Hollie Ferguson @HLFerguson]

Last month, I worked on a story about the City of Victoria Bylaw Officers confiscating belongings from the unhoused community. Yesterday I covered a rally after an advocate's case against the City for these actions was dismissed.

https://t.co/aUzxiFbErC

[mikegraeme.bsky.social @mikegraemephoto]

On Friday, March 11, the @TheBackPackPro1 hosted a Rally for Unhoused Neighbours in Lekwungen Territory, where speakers called for the City of Victoria to stop displacing, traumatizing, arresting, and stealing the property of unhoused folks. 1/7

#yyj #housingisahumanright