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Originally Posted by Vin
And Trump convinced you obviously? Come on, have more faith in your countrymen about what they believe in.
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That's the point - both Donald and Mike Morden are completely full of it. You already fell for one set of made-up imaginary facts, why not fall for the other?
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Originally Posted by Vin
Read into what the mayor of Maple Ridge actually said. It is all about supportive housing that comes with a plan to clean up the homeless, addicts, etc, and not just about providing free housing without any supportive services. Cuz if you give freebies unconditionally, it will just be a temporary solution, because more will come in anticipating the free housing and handouts, and none of those housed will get any better. Does the SROs and the chaos around many of the subsidised housing sound familiar to you? Drug addiction and homelessness continues even though millions have been spent.
The tent city in Surrey could be down for now, but if there are no follow-ups, more will come, and we can be assured of that. That's why the stigma never goes away from that area of Whalley. We need permanent solutions: not just some band-aid patchup initiatives with money going down the drain.
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Reading what he said implies that three-fifths of the Metro's homeless people decided this year to pack up and move to Maple Ridge and stir sh*t up... just for the hell of it?
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into what he said implies only that he's a NIMBY who considers homeless people little more than vermin. If he wanted 24/7 supportive services (which as bluefox mentioned, already exist for all of Metro Vancouver's shelters), he could've just said that instead of pulling numbers out of his buttcrack. The problem is that Maple Ridge has no solution for the homeless, refuses the province's solution, and will apparently only accept a solution that translates as "move the human filth somewhere else."
Surrey's tent city has been
gone for almost a year now, by the way. Thing about PR, reputations don't die easily - thanks to everybody from Ice Cube to Kendrick, we'll always think of Compton, CA as a ghetto no matter how clean it gets.