MLA Jenny Kwan has offered to pay back any improper travel expenses covered by the Portland Hotel Society. With mention of funding from VCH.

MLA Jenny Kwan and her family received a $2,695 trip to Disneyland and a second trip to Europe paid for by the Portland Hotel Society. With mention of funding and the VCH audit of the society.

With major changes ahead for the Portland Hotel Society, some Downtown Eastside residents are worried about the future of its programs. With quotes from Mary Ackenhusen, chief operating officer of VCH.

“If the province’s largest and most visible such agency can botch its bookkeeping so badly, then what of the others, most of which haven’t the organizational resources at their disposal that the Portland Hotel Society did?”

“The Portland Hotel Society audit is shocking evidence of a sense of entitlement.” With mention of the VCH audit of the society.

The provincial government says it reached a deal with the Portland Hotel Society to protect health and housing services for its clients. With mention of VCH’s audit of the society.

An NDP MLA admitted she and her family took two trips cited in scathing government audits that revealed lavish spending by a non-profit group funded to look after some of Canada’s poorest people. With mention of the audits being conducted by VCH and BC Housing as well as funding from VCH.

A non-profit group that gets government funding to look after some of Canada’s poorest people spent thousands of dollars on lavish hotels, limousine rides, expensive dinners and a trip to a Disney resort. With mention of the audits being conducted by VCH and BC Housing as well as funding from VCH.

NDP MLA Jenny Kwan says she was surprised to learn that a $2,695 family trip to Disneyland in 2012 was paid for by the Portland Hotel Society.

Lookout’s Karen O’Shannacery say donors may mistrust non-profits because of a recent audit of the Portland Hotel Society.