Ok,
this caught my eye - Vancouver has an "Anti-Hoarding Task Force" that goes about attempting to deal with households who have accumulated enough garbage to be a risk to themselves and neighborhoods?
A Vancouver woman refused help from the city’s hoarding task force just a
few weeks before her house burned down, says a city councillor.
Members of the city’s Hoarding Action Response Team conducted the first
property inspection early this year after a neighbour launched a
complaint with the city about the clutter and rats in the backyard.
The city’s Hoarding Action Response Team, the first of its kind in North
America, was created in 2011 with Vancouver Coastal Health as part of
the city’s Healthy Cities initiative. It was meant to be an 18-month
pilot project to deal with a backlog of complaints about hoarders in
Vancouver.
He said of the estimated 80 hoarding cases that the team took on when it
was set up, about 50 per cent have been successfully resolved without
forcing the person to clean up. He added that in most of those cases the
person has sought therapy for the mental health disorder.
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