Downtown Eastside - DTES Issues

[Sheba]

I agree that having a tent city somewhere would be a good idea, but where to put it? For that matter do we need only one near downtown Van? Wouldn't it make more sense to have a few across the region, possibly temporarily in empty parking lots before they are redeveloped (I have no doubt the homeless people living there would raise a stink about having to move, but when haven't they). Giving them a place to camp before trying to get them into housing seems a saner idea than letting them randomly picking some public park to take over and potentially destroy.