bc housing – RANDY MILLIS

When Asking Questions Becomes the Problem

By admin Posted on 2026-11-10 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with bc housing, British Columbia, disability, homelessness, human stories, Kelowna BC, Kelowna housing, Personal Dispatches, Turning Points Collaborative Society

Turning Points Collaborative Society describes emergency shelter as temporary housing that provides access to case planning, referrals, meals, showers, and other essential services. Screenshot from the organization’s website.

Personal Dispatches — November 10, 2026Kelowna, British Columbia There’s something particularly exhausting about having to fight for the things that should never have been a fight in the first place. A place to sleep. A safe place to charge a …

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The Kitchen Sink Is Taken, but the Garbage Can Has Potential

By admin Posted on 2026-11-06 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with bc housing, British Columbia, disability, homelessness, Kelowna BC, Personal Dispatches, un affordability

November 6, 2026 — Kelowna, British Columbia There’s a pizza place in Kelowna that sells a pizza called The Kitchen Sink. I discovered this tonight while contemplating spending approximately forty dollars on a large pizza. Forty dollars. For a fucking …

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The Stories We Never Hear

By admin Posted on 2026-11-03 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with bc housing, British Columbia, Community Advocacy, disability, healthcare, homelessness, housing, human stories, interior health, Kelowna BC, Personal Dispatches, transit, un affordability

Personal Dispatches — November 3, 2026 I’ve had a lot of things happen to me. Some of them have been difficult to believe, even as I’ve been living through them. But perhaps the most profound realization I’ve had throughout all …

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Room 301. The Oasis Inn. Of all the fucking places

By admin Posted on 2026-11-03 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with bc housing, disability, homelessness, housing, Kelowna BC

I’m lying on a bed right now, and I’m actually crying. After everything that’s happened over the past six months—the shelters, the hospitalizations, the wheelchair dispute, losing my shelter bed, fighting for accommodation, and trying to figure out where the …

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A Bed Is Not a Destination

By admin Posted on 2026-11-02 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with bc housing, British Columbia, Community Advocacy, homelessness, housing, Kelowna BC, Kelowna housing, Personal Dispatches, Street Photography

Avivo Village — Minneapolis, Minnesota. An indoor shelter project providing private accommodation and support services for people experiencing homelessness. The project illustrates the adaptation of warehouse space for shelter, although the accompanying image should not be treated as a verified photograph of the facility.

November 2, 2026 — Kelowna, British Columbia There’s something profoundly exhausting about having to prove, over and over again, that you’re a human being. Not that you’re homeless. Not that you’re disabled. Not that you’re entitled to special treatment. Just …

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When Mission Statements Become Muscle Memory

By admin Posted on 2026-10-22 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with addiction, bc housing, British Columbia, Community Advocacy, disability, harm reduction, homelessness, human stories, Kelowna, Kelowna BC, Kelowna housing, Lived Experience, Personal Dispatches

Personal Dispatches — True Stories. Real People. Public Good. October 22, 2026 | Kelowna, British Columbia Today, I lost my bed at an emergency shelter. After more than three months at Kelowna Gospel Mission’s Bay Avenue Shelter, I was told …

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Cleaning Up an Encampment Is Only Half the Story

By admin Posted on 2026-08-20 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with bc housing, British Columbia, homelessness, human stories, Kelowna BC, Kelowna housing, Personal Dispatches, un affordability

An open letter to Castanet Castanet’s August 20 story about the cleanup near Mill Creek reports on legitimate concerns: fire hazards, accumulated debris and public safety. Those things matter, and dangerous conditions should be addressed. But there is another part …

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Home Sweet Homeless

By admin Posted on 2026-08-07 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with bc housing, British Columbia, eviction, homelessness, human stories, Kelowna BC, Kelowna housing, Personal Dispatches

When “Home” Becomes Something Everyone Else Is Selling Gallery: A collection of advertisements, storefronts, and scenes that all use the idea of “home”—viewed through the perspective of someone currently experiencing homelessness. Home. It’s one of the smallest words in the …

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Learning to See People

By admin Posted on 2026-07-26 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with bc housing, British Columbia, disability, eviction, healthcare, homelessness, Kelowna BC, Kelowna housing, Personal Dispatches

It started as a childhood game. Once you learn to notice something, you begin seeing it everywhere.

When I was a kid, my mom and I played Punch Buggy. The rules were simple. Whoever spotted a Volkswagen Beetle first got to call it out. “Punch Buggy!” Before long, it seemed like Beetles were everywhere. Of course they …

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Things I Miss

By admin Posted on 2026-07-22 Posted in Personal Dispatches Tagged with bc housing, British Columbia, CCHS, Columbian Centennial Housing Society, disability, Documentary Photography, eviction, homelessness, Kelowna BC, Kelowna housing, Personal Dispatches, Residential Tenancy Branch, Street Photography, tenant rights

When people think about homelessness, this is often the image that comes to mind. A bench. A shopping cart. Everything someone owns piled together. It’s a real image. It’s also an incomplete one. My experience doesn’t look like this. Tonight …

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