LETTER: The NIMBYs forget we are in the middle of a housing emergency

LETTER: The NIMBYs forget we are in the middle of a housing emergency

Dear Editor, I became disgusted reading the letter in praise of NIMBYism, after Cumberland Council deep-sixed the K’waxdzi’dzas affordable housing project. The NIMBY people, shuddering at the thought of someone breaking the rules to house the homeless, have forgotten that we are in the middle of an emergency. There are well over 200 homeless people living in the Comox Valley. People with nowhere to live are 5 to 10 times more likely to die at an…