Prostitution at Maple Ridge supportive housing ‘unlikely’

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It could happen, admits Stephanie Ediger, executive-director Alouette Home Start Society.

A sex trade worker could get into one of the 45-bachelor apartments at the Alouette Heights supportive housing complex when it opens sometime this summer on 222nd Street and Brown Avenue.

But it is unlikely, however.

Too many checks and safeguards reduce the chances of anyone in the sex trade business from moving in, and if they managed to do so and wanted to continue that lifestyle, they’d be encouraged to find another place.

“We have thought about those issues,” says Stephanie Ediger, executive-director of the society.

A UBC-B.C. Centre for Excellence in AIDS/HIV study earlier this month said indoor sex-work spaces reduce the risk of violence and HIV for prostitutes and results in better relationships with police. The study was based on interviews with 39 women prostitutes living in supportive housing in Vancouver.

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