By Cheryl Jahn

City Injunction explained

Oct 25, 2021 | 4:40 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – An area of town called “Mocassin Flats” will soon be getting bigger, following a decision from the BC Supreme Court last week.

The City went before the courts seeking an injunction to have both Moccassin Flats at the end of Fifth Avenue and The Splits on George Street dismantled.in his decision, Chief Justice Hinkson writes:

“It is apparent that very few of the emergency shelter beds are low barrier, and it appears that many of the homeless persons in the City are ineligible to stay in at least some of the shelters. While the City contends that the availability of 81 shelter beds in the City is sufficient to house the encampment occupants, I am not satisfied that these shelter spaces are in fact accessible to all of the occupants of the encampments.”

It’s not something anyone would argue with, regardless of your politics around the homeless.

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“The sad part of this story is, we have a victory in that people are not being criminalized for being homeless. That’s what this campaign was about. Criminalizing people for being homeless. But honestly we “win” until everyone has housing,” says Amelia Merrick with Together We Stand.

“The ruling is understandable,” says John Zukowski with the Downtown Business Advocacy Group. “The reality is there isn’t enough housing as of yet. I think if we had a preponderance of housing for the homeless, then a full injunction would have been granted.”

But he says members of the Safe, Clean and Inclusive Community Committee got an update from BC Housing recently and “there’s a lot going on.”

However, the judge did order the encampment on George Street to be gone by the end of this week.

“Given the migration of most of the occupants of the George Street encampment to the encampment at Lower Patricia, I find that it is unnecessary for the George Street encampment to continue. Its residents can move to the Lower Patricia encampment,” noted Chief Justice Hinkson.