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Aside from the comment that city resources should be directed to build more houses, and services that managed encampment would require are provincial, the city&rsquo;s opposition to managed encampments as one way to address our homelessness problem doesn&rsquo;t make fiscal or societal sense.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading an editorial, an article, and a letter to the editor on managed homeless encampments as well as an opinion piece on the drug crisis in Winnipeg &mdash; all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-600019093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-correspondents","category-west"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"","story_tag":"","byline":"Donna Minkus","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"deck":"","byline":"Donna Minkus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600019093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600019093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600019093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600019093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600019093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600019093"},{"taxonomy":"education-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education-subject?post=600019093"},{"taxonomy":"media-literacy-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-literacy-topic?post=600019093"},{"taxonomy":"post_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_topic?post=600019093"},{"taxonomy":"content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_type?post=600019093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}