Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read stated “….the city believes a different [shelter] provider would have more success.”
The dictionary defines believe as: to have confidence in the truth of something without proof that one is right in doing so; give credence to; to have confidence in the assertion; to suppose or assume.
Juliet: What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet
It does not matter what you call something, it remains what it is. Calling a skunk a rose is not going to leave you smelling like a rose should you run into a skunk.
Braun said, “I know people say we are just studying this to death – no, we’re not.”
Mayor Braun you are not only studying it to death, you are POINTLESSLY studying it to death. By refusing to acknowledge the research and studies already done on Housing First Mayor Braun, City Council and the Abbotsford Homeless Advisory are preventing the creation and implementation of an effective Housing First Action plan that would reduce homelessness in Abbotsford.