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Originally Posted by Changing City
I've looked at the reports you linked to. Have you? If you had, you would see that homelessness in The City of Vancouver fell (very slightly) between 2019 and 2020. And I'm pretty sure you won't find any statistics that tell you where the homeless are located within the city, so you have no idea how many are in the DTES and how many in the rest of the city.
The only way to 'solve' homelessness is to have more homes available for those who are homeless. Almost all the new non-market residential facilities that have been built in the City of Vancouver in the past few years, the two large projects currently under construction, (at East Cordova, and Dunlevy Ave) and most of the ones currently planned like those on West Hastings, East Hastings, Powell Street, another on East Cordova and another on East Hastings (for example) have facilities for mental health support. But individuals can still choose not to use that support, and additionally you can read any number of studies that show how someone in the grip of psychosis will behave in ways dangerous to their own health, and potentially of others, even when they are being supported. That can also happen if medication starts working, so someone 'feels better', stops taking their medication, and then starts acting irrationally again. |
I dont want to have this direct at you, but some of you guys are so damn close to seeing the point, but miss it so completely.
In the same post you say the solution to homelessness is homes for everyone. Seems a pretty logical statement on the surface.
Until you yourself give the reasons why people choose to refuse housing, be it mental health, "overbearing" rules to abide by, etc.
This is the epitome of have your cake and eat it too;
- Have mental health issues, unaddressed, and expect the public to deal with your sh*t on the daily.
- Refuse expensive tax dollar funded housing, because of "rules". Rules that all of us follow as a simple means of living in a society.
- Get to defecate and urinate on the streets, shoot up, indefinitely because freedoms or something.
- Complain that not enough is done for the homeless.
ENOUGH.
This is such a ridiculous circular logic.
If you're not in the state of mind to treat yourself in a healthy way and continually demonstrate an inability to adhere to the most basic requirements of society then at some point there must be a line drawn where you forfeit your ability to make decisions for self.
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