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From YouTube: MARCH 1 2023 Spencer Chandra Herbert
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
4th Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
Vancouver
West
End.
Thank
you
honorable
speaker.
One
of
the
first
reasons
that
I
decided
to
enter
into
politics
at
the
provincial
level
was
the
challenge
of
homelessness.
Too
many
people
in
my
community
were
ending
up
on
the
streets
due
to
illegal
evictions
due
to
poverty
due
to
missed
checks
due
to
missed
payments,
an
honorable
speaker.
A
Well,
we
can
build
more
affordable
housing
and
Supportive
Housing
to
help
people
who
become
homeless.
I
often
think
it's
just
as
important
that
we
work
on
the
reasons
someone
is
to
become
homeless.
Honorable
speaker
I
want
to
celebrate
the
BC
rent
bank
and
the
network
of
rent
Banks
across
this
province.
Now,
for
those
that
don't
know
what
a
rent
bank
is,
it's
something
I
learned
too,
a
constituent
had
come
to
me.
She
was
sleeping
in
her
van.
She
missed
some
payments
on
rent
because
she'd
been
sick
and
had
to
take
the
time
off.
A
Work
she'd
been
living
close
to
the
edge.
Now
she
said
to
me:
if
I
just
had
a
small
loan
that
I
could
have
paid,
the
landlord
I
could
have
kept
my
home
I
wouldn't
have
lost
my
things.
I
wouldn't
have
lost
my
job
and
I
wouldn't
have
had
to
sleep
in
my
van
for
two
years,
so
my
office
got
to
work.
We've
pulled
together.
The
van
City
Community
Foundation,
nicest
the
city
of
Vancouver,
the
street
to
home
foundation,
and
we
founded
the
Vancouver
rent.
A
Bank
we'd
had
a
small
Red
Bank
operating
in
the
east
side,
but
nothing
for
the
West
End
and
nothing
for
the
rest
of
Vancouver
that
Foundation.
That
start
helped.
Thousands
of
people
stay
in
their
homes
from
about
2012
2013
on
up
to
now,
but
it
wasn't
enough
for
just
Vancouver,
because
we
know
there
are
these
stories
in
all
of
our
communities.
You
all
know
people
you've
all
heard
from
people
come
to
your
offices
needing
that
help
desperate
nowhere
to
turn.
A
Maybe
they
don't
have
family,
maybe
they've,
just
moved
there,
maybe
they're
at
their
end
of
the
limit.
Rent
Banks
can
help
those
people
now
in
every
part
of
this
province.
Our
government
invested
in
them
because
we
believe
you
should
help
before
somebody
becomes
homeless,
that's
just
as
important
as
helping
somebody
when
they
are
homeless.
Thank
you,
honorable
speaker,.