Victoria mayor floats plan to billet homeless to ease housing crisis
Victoria’s mayor wants people to open their homes to those sleeping in parks and their cars because they can’t afford or find accommodation.
Lisa Helps said residents in the city opened their homes to workers during the Second World War and people should consider doing it again for the hundreds of people who can’t find a place to stay.
In a post on her blog, Helps cited local newspaper headlines from the 1940s urging Victoria residents to open their homes to homeless workers participating in the war effort.
“Now we have a different crisis on our doorstep,” she wrote.