Downtown Eastside - DTES Issues

[Migrant_Coconut]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

You can camp overnight at a park (way better than a Hastings St sidewalk) and pack up in the morning. This is what the courts ruled.

The lower your ability to live within the laws of a civil society, the less care I have for what happens to you.

And we've seen how effective that rule is. Sympathy or lack of it doesn't really matter - if City Hall ends up having to waste time/money/resources patrolling half of downtown until the next election (or longer), they've simply replaced one problem with another.

Originally Posted by Vin

I would love them keep handing out free tents and see how long they can last with their "unlimited resources". It is safe to say that this cleanup has the backing of most people in the City. Go ABC, and let's keep it up!

I'd love to see how long ABC can keep up monitoring Hastings if they can't even afford the new cops and nurses from the election platform. Overpromising and underdelivering, just as expected.

Also, from your favourite news site:

Vancouver homeless shelters overwhelmed amid Downtown Eastside decampment and rainfall event

... Nicole Mucci with Union Gospel Mission told Daily Hive Urbanized that the organization’s shelter has been consistently full for the past 15 months, but it was under even more stress this weekend.

“Friday night into Saturday morning we had people sleeping in our hallway. Like we were so full and we found as many extra mats as we could to accommodate as many extra people … and then we still ended up having to turn away some folks,” she explained...

... “We’ve seen that a lot of the places that we were calling around to we’re also full in terms of just like the other regular shelters that operate every day of the year,” she explained...

So no, there isn't enough room in the shelters; we can expect the people turned away to move back onto Hastings or another street/park, and then City Hall will have to cover those areas too. Have fun watching taxes go up again (which IIRC you think only happens under a useless council).