Human Resources committee  If I may, with regard to the 16 youth who are there, we can't get them out of their situation because there's nowhere to take them. We need a safe house and a long-term shelter.

Human Resources committee  A youth shelter is licensed to house only five youth at a time, with one emergency bed. It costs about $300,000 a year to run a youth shelter like that. To suit the population that we know is here on the streets, we need three shelters. One of them needs to be a safe house; that

Human Resources committee  There are only 20 beds for all of the Lower Mainland, which has two million to three million people. Our youth homelessness segment for this age group alone, between 13 and 18, is 16 in a population of 100,000.

Human Resources committee  In 2014, with the change in policy of the homelessness partnering strategy, all support for youth shelters was terminated. It went exclusively to the housing first policy, which I laud highly, but we have zero resources for youth in our community. There is no food source for whic

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Chairman May. Today we have two things to ask of the federal government. One is to create a specific and distinct strategy for youth homelessness, and the other is to directly fund long-term youth shelters and housing for the reasons we will be revealing nex

Human Resources committee  We have 16 youth on the street here who are living as sex slaves or gang tools. Usually the story is that they have trauma at home, usually abuse, or torture in some cases, and they are brought to the notice of a provincial ministry that then tries to put them into foster care. T