{"id":27065,"date":"2020-12-12T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T19:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=27065"},"modified":"2020-12-14T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:56:24","slug":"the-abbotsford-homeless-populations-resource-scarcity-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-abbotsford-homeless-populations-resource-scarcity-persists\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbotsford homeless population\u2019s resource scarcity persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the wealth gap grows in the Fraser Valley, the resources available to the less fortunate are being neglected, argues a local homelessness advocate.<\/p>\n<p>CIVL spoke with Pastor Ward Draper, executive Director of 5 and 2 ministries, a homeless advocacy group located in Abbotsford. In the second part of a two-part interview, Draper discusses the resources needed by the homeless in the Fraser Valley. Draper says he is noticing that services available for the homeless are not a priority for governments in the region, as the cities in the Fraser Valley obtain more wealth.<\/p>\n<p>The large inequality between what is required and what is available needs to be closed immediately, Draper says \u2014 governments need to work rapidly on funding a wide range of services from mental health to detox recovery spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the wealth gap grows in the Fraser Valley, the resources available to the less fortunate are being neglected, argues a local homelessness advocate. CIVL spoke with Pastor Ward Draper, executive Director of 5 and 2 ministries, a homeless advocacy group located in Abbotsford. In the second part of a two-part interview, Draper discusses the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":27069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223,225],"tags":[4154,3681,4152,1107,4153],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27065"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=27065"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=27065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}