The proliferation of RV’s and Campers being used to shelter homeless people in Port Alberni has sparked a fight between City Council and notorious property owner Randy Brown.
Council is complaining that trucks and trailers are being parked behind his Third and Fourth Avenue properties in contravention of bylaws, but Brown insists he’s doing the city a favour.
“These trailers are the best thing that ever happened to the homeless people in Port Alberni,” he said. “We’re housing people from the bottom up. We have taken the most vulnerable people and we’re putting them in these trailers and we don’t have enough trailers, we have a list 40 people long of people who want trailers, it’s just the greatest idea.”
Yesterday, Brown told council he would not be moving the trailers despite their demands.
“I think we’re at 34 people off the street and housed, and city council has zero,” he said. “They’ve kicked people out and they’ve put people on the street; I’m going to house them, and I ain’t moving those trailers.”
Brown said the city is creating the homeless problem by forcing evictions from nuisance properties and the people have no other places to go.
Council did agree to grant an extention for remediation work at the former CJAV building which Brown has turned into a dormitory for people in poverty.
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