Premier David Eby announced B.C. has identified sites for two new facilities for the involuntarily housing of patients experiencing severe mental illnesses.

Prince George and Surrey will host the facilities, with about 100 more beds in total. This adds to two existing units, one at the Surrey pretrial centre and the other at the Alouette correctional centre.

"We are working to do this in every region of the province, so people get treatment and care and dignity close at home in ways that make them safer, in ways that make the broader community safer as well," Eby said.

Eby announced the units in a speech at the Union of B.C. Municipalities conference on Friday, Sept. 26.

The conference opened on Monday, with a session in which community leaders, including the CEO of a large Victoria sh

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