Vaughn Palmer: But despite a rising tide of concerns, the NDP is taking a go-slow approach to making changes

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VICTORIA — The New Democrats finally acknowledged this week that B.C.’s supportive housing projects have become havens for violence, weapons, fires, and drug use, confirming what critics have been saying for months and, in some cases, years.

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They also conceded that the government had made the problems worse by amending the Residential Tenancy Act to make it harder to evict the worst-case abusers from supportive housing.

But they continued to delay fixing the problems they themselves had compounded. Rather they appointed a working group to come up with remedies, perhaps including repeal of the NDP-authored changes to the Act.

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