Downtown Eastside - DTES Issues

[240glt]

^ ITts well documented. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not true.

It's that age old question: does the end justify the means ? Was it worth it to create all the problems that exist in the DTES by negotiating an extremely questionable and unethical land deal between the province and a Chinese company (with the city of Vancouver complicit) From what I've heard someone should probably have gone to jail for how that all went down. And it's a testament to how we treat people as a society. In this case, push the undesirables north of the Gerogia viaduct so that real estate developers could create the west coast urban utopia that exists there today. The Expo/ Yaletown development is a paradox: it's brought out both the very best and very worst of the city. And yes it comes down to money. And everyone knows where that money went.