Downtown Eastside - DTES Issues

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Originally Posted by Changing City

No, he was right - there just aren't enough beds for the current number of homeless. That list of shelters is where all the temporarily housed are already living. The shelters are almost full - there weren't enough beds available in the city for the number of people who had been living in tents along Hastings, that were displaced. (It seems like about 100, but I'm pretty certain they didn't do an accurate count, they just cleared the street). There won't be enough tonight either, or even when the new temporary Main Street building is finished - although it'll be more than we have now. Shelters all have a limit on the number of people they can house, based on the fire officer's number that can safely be accommodated. When they're full, they turn people away.

"We don't have enough spaces. That's why people are sleeping on the street," said Sarah Goldvine, B.C. Housing's vice president of communications and public affairs.

The organization funds more than 4,000 permanent and temporary shelter spaces across the province, with an occupancy rate of 91 per cent. It is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in affordable housing projects, but the supply is not keeping up with demand."

As usual, you are wrong...

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/h...stside-6816406

Premier David Eby described the sidewalk evictions as “a very sad situation an a sad day” but insisted that there is enough shelter space available, with more than 300 housing units coming online by June

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Those who want chaos to rule will keep saying there isn't enough shelters.