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BC Office | Update

“We’ve invited the world, they’re coming, and the place is a mess.” That was the tag line the CCPA gave to our BC Solutions Budget back in 2004. At the time, we argued as strongly as we could that if BC was to change the story the world would tell of us this month, we needed to get busy tackling poverty and building social housing.  Sadly, that appeal went largely unheeded, until some frantic action on homelessness started up in 2007...

Read the rest of Seth Klein's blog post on Policy Note.

 

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