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Originally Posted by van Hemessen
Yep that's the solution. Send all the poor people away.
As someone who spent 5 years of his childhood living in affordable housing in downtown London with a single mother I find this attitude truly disgusting.
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Why do you single me out for attack? Other people in the thread refer to "weirdos", "crackheads" and "bums" hanging out around Dundas. Where do you think these people live? Westmount? Frankly, I don't know why you're so terribly offended. I did not necessarily endorse this method as being the end-all-be-all solution for all problems in this city, merely that it would be part of the solution for the issue at hand. It certainly worked well for all the Old Money Liberals who used to run Metro Toronto. They didn't want the "bums" loitering around in their ritzy downtown neighbourhoods, so they stuffed all the new Ontario Housing complexes in North York and Scarberia. The Intersections of Jane Street and Finch Avenue West, as well as Markham Road and Eglinton Avenue East, are monuments to the success of their self-interested experiments.
Personally, I grew up living right near a public housing complex (Sparroways) at Finch Avenue E. and Leslie Street in North York, and it caused absolutely no end of problems for the surrounding residents (Robberies, aggravated assaults, drugs, etc. Finch and Leslie has since been cleaned up, used to be much worse in the 1990s). Granted, most people in Ontario Housing are not lawbreakers, but you must understand why these developments attract such negative stigma. It takes a certain concentration of bad apples before the NIMBYism starts to set in, and most of these complexes meet that concentration requirement.
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