Downtown Eastside - DTES Issues

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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

In fairness, you'd probably have most Vancouverites on your side if it weren't for "defund the nonprofits and sell to developers" followed by "well, you can't make an omelette..." By all means, destroy Atira - it's rotting from top to bottom, but the director's literally in bed with BC Housing, so nothing can change - but for the most part trying to solve homelessness by getting rid of the homes is more than a little counterproductive.

We're rebuilding Riverview, which starts to address the problem cases, and the upcoming detox facility on Clark should help the addicts. We should be building shelters faster (and keeping them safer) so that regular homeless don't slide into the first two, and we definitely need new judges, but AFAIK anything more requires us to hold JT to the fire.

I think most who support gentrification as part of the solution envision unlocking some of the immense value of an under developed neighbourhood in the center of the city to fund housing for the current residents elsewhere. It is time for a different approach. The DTES is such an unhealthy environment that its mere existence perpetuates the problems that make it such a shitshow in the first place.