-step up the police presence.
-disperse some offices/services catering to homeless people and those suffering from addictions (particularly the FIVE pharmacies along Dundas that dispense drugs) so that they are not all concentrated downtown.
-consider re-institutionalizing those people with the worst cases of mental illness, and generally up spending on addiction/mental illness treatment
I sympathize greatly with people with addictions and mental illness. But if the downtown core is perceived to be overrun with such people, there is little hope that it can recover. In my 21+ years living in London, the metro has grown by perhaps 75%, yet the downtown has withered. Shiny condo towers do not disguise the fact that the streets are becoming lifeless (except on Richmond Row during the drinking nights of UWO students).
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
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