[Genauso]

Shelters are like emergency rooms for the medical system.

They are expensive care and not suited to delivering most of the needed care.

They should not be the primary delivery of services, and if so then something is very wrong.

Planting shelters around and then claiming accomplishment or dismissing further work is bad. Until there is clear development and results in the remainder of the homeless/mental health/domestic violence/substance abuse/unemployment pipeline, I agree with local residents resisting their neighborhood treated as a dumping ground or warehouse federally, provincially, and locally. I am sympathetic to the organizational and political challenges of building a large system piecemeal, but the current campaign won't succeed just by adding shelters even without concern for cost or neighbors.