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Originally Posted by Changing City
Yes, solving homelessness is expensive, and complicated. Ignoring it is every bit as expensive unless you're going to let people die. Funnily enough, it's exactly like putting out fires - The province spent more than $568 million on firefighting efforts last year, and while the figures for 2018 are still coming together, the bill is already estimated to be more than $300 million this year.
The elections are coming very soon. It's not too late for you to stand in Vancouver (assuming you live in Vancouver) on the platform that you'll ship the homeless off to Abbotsford. Although you might not want to move to Abbotsford and stand for election with the same policy.
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Abbotsford was an example. We're not exactly moving homeless to another area. Once we house them in a facility they aren't homeless anymore! There's a difference between moving homeless to another city and creating social housing facilities in another city.
The province creates much of its social housing across BC. I'm just suggesting we pick one city who could use the extra jobs and has low housing costs and create our social housing facilities there. While slightly bad sounding it would also greatly increase the amount of people we can help. Hell, the Riverview Housing is in Coquitlam with 244 acres. Imagine if we pumped our whole social housing budget into there where the land is free instead of using Vancouver's expensive real estate. We're literally having tax paying people who want to work and live in Vancouver competing with people who just need a good social housing facility which doesn't make sense.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/premier-john-horgan-to-make-riverview-lands-announcement Economies of scale states that if we do all our social housing in one area instead of spreading it out, one area with a hospital and addictions center, we will see much greater returns for every dollar spent.
I can't think of any important reason why we need to keep our homeless in Vancouver when they can get the same quality of life and treatment somewhere nearby for less. And we're the ones having a housing crisis so we're taking housing from those who need homes to build facilities for homeless.