Open Letter to BC Officials Regarding Displacement, Disability, and Housing Instability in Kelowna
OPEN LETTER
Kelowna displacement case now involving hospitalization, wheelchair safety concerns, and shelter uncertainty
May 20, 2026 — Kelowna, British Columbia
To:
Hon. David Eby, Premier of British Columbia
Hon. Christine Boyle, Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs
Hon. Sheila Malcolmson, Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction
Hon. Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure
Kristina Loewen, MLA, Kelowna Centre
CC: Local and provincial media contacts
Good morning,
I am writing publicly because my situation in Kelowna has now expanded beyond a tenancy dispute into a broader issue involving displacement, medical instability, mobility impairment, accessibility failure, and potential homelessness during ongoing court proceedings.
An active BC Supreme Court judicial review remains ongoing in relation to my housing matter. Despite that process continuing, I have now been displaced from my home and am temporarily living out of a motel while simultaneously attempting to stabilize health, transportation, storage, mobility, shelter, legal obligations, and day-to-day survival.
Over the past several weeks I have simultaneously navigated emergency court timelines and filings, eviction and forced displacement, storage movement and transportation logistics, temporary motel survival, desperate ongoing housing searches, recent hospitalization for dehydration and critically low magnesium, escalating wheelchair safety and mobility issues, and the operational collapse that begins occurring when stable housing disappears while every surrounding system continues demanding immediate responses.
The cumulative effect is difficult to explain to people operating from stable housing environments.
Once housing continuity collapses, even basic activities become unstable: sleep, food preparation, medication management, transportation, storage, mobility, communication, scheduling, medical recovery, and physical safety itself.
My wheelchair is covered under an existing maintenance and repair program. However, the pace and instability of the displacement crisis, court obligations, transportation demands, temporary accommodation, and continuous mobility dependence have made coordinating repair windows extremely difficult.
I have barely had time to stop and breathe.
Over the same period I have needed to remain available at short notice for court matters, emergency filings, housing searches, transportation coordination, eviction logistics, storage movement, medical recovery, and ongoing attempts to avoid complete housing collapse.
At the moment I cannot simply surrender the chair unpredictably for repair and wait safely in a stable home environment while service occurs.
The chair is currently my only mobility system while navigating buses, hotels, storage, housing searches, medical recovery, and legal obligations simultaneously.
Yesterday the wheelchair abruptly veered sideways downhill badly enough that I nearly entered traffic. It genuinely frightened me.
The issue is not simply equipment failure in isolation.
The issue is what happens when disability, displacement, exhaustion, legal instability, medical recovery, and housing collapse begin compounding together operationally.
Public Dispatches
I have also been documenting these experiences publicly through a series of personal dispatches written in real time from Kelowna.
The dispatches focus less on legal argument and more on what prolonged instability actually looks like day to day: court filings, mobility strain, hotel displacement, survival budgeting, bureaucratic navigation, accessibility breakdowns, medical exhaustion, and the psychological fragmentation that can occur when a person spends months operating in continuous crisis-management mode.
Read the dispatches here:
https://millis-it.com/personal-dispatches/
One Reality That Keeps Becoming Clear
Losing housing does not reduce operational costs.
It multiplies them.
Hotels cost more.
Prepared food costs more.
Transportation becomes harder.
Mobility becomes harder.
Storage costs money.
Everything fragments.
Everything becomes inefficient.
At the same time, a person’s physical and psychological reserves are usually already depleted before displacement fully occurs.
That combination is dangerous.
At the moment I am temporarily staying at the Oasis Inn in Kelowna while attempting to stabilize shelter, mobility, storage, transportation, medical recovery, and ongoing court matters simultaneously.
I am asking elected officials and policymakers to recognize that these situations are not abstract policy discussions.
They are lived operational failures that can rapidly evolve into medical risk, mobility danger, psychological collapse, and homelessness.
I am also making this letter public because many people experiencing similar instability never have the energy, ability, or platform to document it in real time.
If your office or newsroom would like to discuss this matter further, I remain available.
Randy Millis (he/him/his)
No Fixed Address
C/O General Delivery and Commander Capri Post Office
Kelowna, BC
778-436-2418 x1001
rmillis@millis-it.com
https://millis-it.com
I acknowledge that I live and work within the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Syilx Nation in Ki-Low-Na.