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Originally Posted by rofina
... I dislike speaking to Vancouverites about this because we have been corrupted here. We have rose colored glasses on.
Everyone knows this is a f*cked up sh*tshow, but we all tacitly allow it to go one by employing some tired and abused tropes; complicated, expensive, no simple solution, etc...
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In fairness, you'd probably have most Vancouverites on your side if it weren't for "defund the nonprofits and sell to developers" followed by "well, you can't make an omelette..." By all means, destroy Atira - it's rotting from top to bottom, but the director's literally in bed with BC Housing, so nothing can change - but for the most part trying to solve homelessness
by getting rid of the homes is more than a little counterproductive.
We're rebuilding Riverview, which starts to address the problem cases, and the upcoming detox facility on Clark should help the addicts. We should be building shelters faster (and keeping them safer) so that regular homeless don't slide into the first two, and we definitely need new judges, but AFAIK anything more requires us to hold JT to the fire.